--- a/src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -4002,10 +4002,6 @@
   return true;
 }
 
-// int local_vsnprintf(char* buf, size_t count, const char* format, va_list args) {
-//   return ::vsnprintf(buf, count, format, args);
-// }
-
 // Is a (classpath) directory empty?
 bool os::dir_is_empty(const char* path) {
   DIR *dir = NULL;

--- a/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -3797,11 +3797,6 @@
   return true;
 }
 
-ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(3, 0)
-int local_vsnprintf(char* buf, size_t count, const char* format, va_list args) {
-  return ::vsnprintf(buf, count, format, args);
-}
-
 // Is a (classpath) directory empty?
 bool os::dir_is_empty(const char* path) {
   DIR *dir = NULL;

--- a/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -5007,10 +5007,6 @@
   return true;
 }
 
-int local_vsnprintf(char* buf, size_t count, const char* format, va_list args) {
-  return ::vsnprintf(buf, count, format, args);
-}
-
 // Is a (classpath) directory empty?
 bool os::dir_is_empty(const char* path) {
   DIR *dir = NULL;

--- a/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -4729,27 +4729,6 @@
 
 bool os::check_heap(bool force) { return true; }
 
-typedef int (*vsnprintf_t)(char* buf, size_t count, const char* fmt, va_list argptr);
-static vsnprintf_t sol_vsnprintf = NULL;
-
-int local_vsnprintf(char* buf, size_t count, const char* fmt, va_list argptr) {
-  if (!sol_vsnprintf) {
-    //search  for the named symbol in the objects that were loaded after libjvm
-    void* where = RTLD_NEXT;
-    if ((sol_vsnprintf = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(vsnprintf_t, dlsym(where, "__vsnprintf"))) == NULL)
-        sol_vsnprintf = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(vsnprintf_t, dlsym(where, "vsnprintf"));
-    if (!sol_vsnprintf){
-      //search  for the named symbol in the objects that were loaded before libjvm
-      where = RTLD_DEFAULT;
-      if ((sol_vsnprintf = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(vsnprintf_t, dlsym(where, "__vsnprintf"))) == NULL)
-        sol_vsnprintf = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(vsnprintf_t, dlsym(where, "vsnprintf"));
-      assert(sol_vsnprintf != NULL, "vsnprintf not found");
-    }
-  }
-  return (*sol_vsnprintf)(buf, count, fmt, argptr);
-}
-
-
 // Is a (classpath) directory empty?
 bool os::dir_is_empty(const char* path) {
   DIR *dir = NULL;

--- a/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@
 #ifndef ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF
 #define ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(fmt, vargs)
 #endif
+#ifndef ATTRIBUTE_SCANF
+#define ATTRIBUTE_SCANF(fmt, vargs)
+#endif
 
 
 #include "utilities/macros.hpp"

--- a/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions_gcc.hpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions_gcc.hpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -271,15 +271,16 @@
 #define PRAGMA_IMPLEMENTATION        #pragma implementation
 #define VALUE_OBJ_CLASS_SPEC
 
-#ifndef ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF
 // Diagnostic pragmas like the ones defined below in PRAGMA_FORMAT_NONLITERAL_IGNORED
 // were only introduced in GCC 4.2. Because we have no other possibility to ignore
 // these warnings for older versions of GCC, we simply don't decorate our printf-style
 // functions with __attribute__(format) in that case.
 #if ((__GNUC__ == 4) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ >= 2)) || (__GNUC__ > 4)
+#ifndef ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF
 #define ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(fmt,vargs)  __attribute__((format(printf, fmt, vargs)))
-#else
-#define ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(fmt,vargs)
+#endif
+#ifndef ATTRIBUTE_SCANF
+#define ATTRIBUTE_SCANF(fmt,vargs)  __attribute__((format(scanf, fmt, vargs)))
 #endif
 #endif
 

--- a/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions_sparcWorks.hpp	Wed Sep 10 11:55:33 2014 +0200
+++ b/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions_sparcWorks.hpp	Tue Aug 26 11:53:24 2014 +0200
@@ -265,14 +265,6 @@
 
 inline int wcslen(const jchar* x) { return wcslen((const wchar_t*)x); }
 
-
-// Misc
-// NOTE: This one leads to an infinite recursion on Linux
-#ifndef LINUX
-int local_vsnprintf(char* buf, size_t count, const char* fmt, va_list argptr);
-#define vsnprintf local_vsnprintf
-#endif
-
 // Portability macros
 #define PRAGMA_INTERFACE
 #define PRAGMA_IMPLEMENTATION