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-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc b/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc
index 9b8304a7ca..ace4a65309 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc
@@ -140,15 +140,16 @@ std::string make_stringf(const char *s, ...)
{
va_list args;
va_start(args, s);
-
- size_t len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, s, args);
- char *buf = (char *)malloc(len + 1);
+ char buf1[400];
+ size_t len = vsnprintf(buf1, sizeof buf1, s, args);
va_end(args);
+ if (len < sizeof buf1)
+ return (buf1);
+ char *buf2 = (char*)malloc(len + 1);
va_start(args, s);
- vsnprintf(buf, len + 1, s, args);
- std::string ret(buf);
- free(buf);
-
+ vsnprintf(buf2, len + 1, s, args);
+ std::string ret(buf2);
+ free(buf2);
va_end(args);
return (ret);
}