MINOR: tools: make memvprintf() never pass a NULL target to vsnprintf()
Most modern platforms don't touch the output buffer when the size
argument is null, but there exist a few old ones (like AIX 5 and
possibly Tru64) where the output will be dereferenced anyway, probably
to write the trailing null, crashing the process. memprintf() uses this
to measure the desired length.
There is a very simple workaround to this consisting in passing a pointer
to a character instead of a NULL pointer. It was confirmed to fix the issue
on AIX 5.1.
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