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Re: [C++ patch] accept __null as sentinel

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Michael Matz wrote:

> > Fine; then -Wformat=2 is a reasonable place.
> 
> If you can agree with Joseph on that one, I would consider implementing it 
> there.  The reason I ask is because -Wformat has a specific purpose, 
> whereunder the sentinel attribute does not fall.

The purpose of -Wformat is generally checking for calls to library 
functions which may be problematic at runtime (but for which no diagnostic 
is required at compile time).  Hence the inclusion of -Wnonnull and 
sentinel warnings in -Wformat.

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