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+/*
+ * The authors of this software are Rob Pike and Ken Thompson,
+ * with contributions from Mike Burrows and Sean Dorward.
+ *
+ *     Copyright (c) 2002-2006 by Lucent Technologies.
+ *     Portions Copyright (c) 2004 Google Inc.
+ * 
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
+ * purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
+ * is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy
+ * or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting
+ * documentation for such software.
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
+ * WARRANTY.  IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 
+ * NOR GOOGLE INC MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING 
+ * THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+ */
+
+#include <u.h>
+#include <libc.h>
+#include "fmtdef.h"
+
+int
+sprint(char *buf, char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	int n;
+	uint len;
+	va_list args;
+
+	len = 1<<30;  /* big number, but sprint is deprecated anyway */
+	/*
+	 * on PowerPC, the stack is near the top of memory, so
+	 * we must be sure not to overflow a 32-bit pointer.
+	 *
+	 * careful!  gcc-4.2 assumes buf+len < buf can never be true and
+	 * optimizes the test away.  casting to uintptr works around this bug.
+	 */
+	if((uintptr)buf+len < (uintptr)buf)
+		len = -(uintptr)buf-1;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	n = vsnprint(buf, len, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+	return n;
+}