Replace for loosing platforms.

+/* Like vsprintf but provides a pointer to malloc'd storage, which must
+   be freed by the caller.
+   Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#if __STDC__
+# include <stdarg.h>
+#else
+# include <varargs.h>
+#endif
+
+#ifdef TEST
+int global_total_width;
+#endif
+
+unsigned long strtoul ();
+char *malloc ();
+
+static int
+int_vasprintf (result, format, args)
+     char **result;
+     const char *format;
+     va_list *args;
+{
+  const char *p = format;
+  /* Add one to make sure that it is never zero, which might cause malloc
+     to return NULL.  */
+  int total_width = strlen (format) + 1;
+  va_list ap;
+
+  memcpy (&ap, args, sizeof (va_list));
+
+  while (*p != '\0')
+    {
+      if (*p++ == '%')
+	{
+	  while (strchr ("-+ #0", *p))
+	    ++p;
+	  if (*p == '*')
+	    {
+	      ++p;
+	      total_width += abs (va_arg (ap, int));
+	    }
+	  else
+	    total_width += strtoul (p, &p, 10);
+	  if (*p == '.')
+	    {
+	      ++p;
+	      if (*p == '*')
+		{
+		  ++p;
+		  total_width += abs (va_arg (ap, int));
+		}
+	      else
+		total_width += strtoul (p, &p, 10);
+	    }
+	  while (strchr ("hlL", *p))
+	    ++p;
+	  /* Should be big enough for any format specifier except %s.  */
+	  total_width += 30;
+	  switch (*p)
+	    {
+	    case 'd':
+	    case 'i':
+	    case 'o':
+	    case 'u':
+	    case 'x':
+	    case 'X':
+	    case 'c':
+	      (void) va_arg (ap, int);
+	      break;
+	    case 'f':
+	    case 'e':
+	    case 'E':
+	    case 'g':
+	    case 'G':
+	      (void) va_arg (ap, double);
+	      break;
+	    case 's':
+	      total_width += strlen (va_arg (ap, char *));
+	      break;
+	    case 'p':
+	    case 'n':
+	      (void) va_arg (ap, char *);
+	      break;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+#ifdef TEST
+  global_total_width = total_width;
+#endif
+  *result = malloc (total_width);
+  if (*result != NULL)
+    return vsprintf (*result, format, *args);
+  else
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int
+vasprintf (result, format, args)
+     char **result;
+     const char *format;
+     va_list args;
+{
+  return int_vasprintf (result, format, &args);
+}
+
+int
+asprintf
+#if __STDC__
+     (char **result, const char *format, ...)
+#else
+     (result, va_alist)
+     char **result;
+     va_dcl
+#endif
+{
+  va_list args;
+  int done;
+
+#if __STDC__
+  va_start (args, format);
+#else
+  char *format;
+  va_start (args);
+  format = va_arg (args, char *);
+#endif
+  done = vasprintf (result, format, args);
+  va_end (args);
+
+  return done;
+} 
+
+#ifdef TEST
+void
+checkit
+#if __STDC__
+     (const char* format, ...)
+#else
+     (va_alist)
+     va_dcl
+#endif
+{
+  va_list args;
+  char *result;
+
+#if __STDC__
+  va_start (args, format);
+#else
+  char *format;
+  va_start (args);
+  format = va_arg (args, char *);
+#endif
+  vasprintf (&result, format, args);
+  if (strlen (result) < global_total_width)
+    printf ("PASS: ");
+  else
+    printf ("FAIL: ");
+  printf ("%d %s\n", global_total_width, result);
+}
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+  checkit ("%d", 0x12345678);
+  checkit ("%200d", 5);
+  checkit ("%.300d", 6);
+  checkit ("%100.150d", 7);
+  checkit ("%s", "jjjjjjjjjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooooooppppppppppppaa\n\
+777777777777777777333333333333366666666666622222222222777777777777733333");
+  checkit ("%f%s%d%s", 1.0, "foo", 77, "asdjffffffffffffffiiiiiiiiiiixxxxx");
+}
+#endif /* TEST */