-/****
- **** string handling (parts from http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/)
- ****/
-
-/* prototype of C99 functions */
-#if defined(HAVE_SNPRINTF)
-#include <stdio.h>
-#else
- XBT_PUBLIC(int) snprintf(char *, size_t, const char *, /*args*/ ...);
- XBT_PUBLIC(int) vsnprintf(char *, size_t, const char *, va_list);
-#endif
-
-
-/* use internal functions when OS provided ones are borken */
-#if defined(HAVE_SNPRINTF) && defined(PREFER_PORTABLE_SNPRINTF)
-extern int portable_snprintf(char *str, size_t str_m, const char *fmt, /*args*/ ...);
-extern int portable_vsnprintf(char *str, size_t str_m, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
-#define snprintf portable_snprintf
-#define vsnprintf portable_vsnprintf
-#endif
-
-/* prototype of GNU functions */
-#if defined(__GNUC__)
-extern int asprintf (char **ptr, const char *fmt, /*args*/ ...);
-extern int vasprintf (char **ptr, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
-#endif
-
-extern int asnprintf (char **ptr, size_t str_m, const char *fmt, /*args*/ ...);
-extern int vasnprintf(char **ptr, size_t str_m, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
-
-/*
- * That's needed to protect solaris's printf from ever seing NULL associated to a %s format
- * (without adding an extra check on working platforms :)
- */
-
-#ifdef PRINTF_NULL_WORKING
-# define PRINTF_STR(a) (a)
-#else
-# define PRINTF_STR(a) (a)?:"(null)"
-#endif
-
-/*
- * What we need to extract the backtrace in exception handling code
- */