+#if wxUSE_WXVSNPRINTF
+ // we know that our own implementation of wxVsnprintf() returns
+ // size+1 when there's not enough space but that's not the size
+ // of the required buffer!
+ size *= 2; // so we just double the current size of the buffer
+#else
+ // some vsnprintf() implementations NUL-terminate the buffer and
+ // some don't in len == size case, to be safe always add 1
+ size = len + 1;
+#endif