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Re: Support for %d$c format specifier in diagnostics.c
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Ishikawa wrote:
> Yes, for the format checker,
> I will use the data definitions, etc. as implemented in your patch, but
> I am not quite sure how to accommodate the
> positional parameter in the checker framework.
There is full support for such formats in the checking code - you'd need
to set the flag FMT_FLAG_USE_DOLLAR and possibly FMT_FLAG_DOLLAR_MULTIPLE.
That doesn't mean there would be any purpose other than obfuscation for
actually using them directly in source files.
Although the support for checking such formats is probably little used -
as they are generally used in translations only - at least one person must
have used that support (and so $ formats in the source file) in the past,
because there was once a bug report about it (6547).
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Joseph S. Myers
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