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Subject: Re: [9front] nupas auth: incompatibility and error messaging
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X-Bullshit: lossless transactional realtime-java cache layer 

At the very least you should check that the char* returned from
smprint is not nil.

But if this were me I would avoid the memory allocation entirely since
we can estimate a reasonable bound on the auth string. In that case I
like to use a static buf instead and print into it sequentially. That
way you also avoid an arguably ugly ternary expression and avoid
another memory allocation that is found below:
http://okturing.com/src/1190/body