__attribute__ format doesn't work

Michael Vanier mvanier@cs.caltech.edu
Sat Mar 29 04:32:00 GMT 2003


Never mind, it was just a bug in my code.  Sorry.

Mike

> I believe I have found a bug in the attribute system of gcc.
> 
> I declared a function as follows:
> 
> extern Result ExecuteCommandStringFormatted(const char *cmd, ...)
>     __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)));
> 
> and then used it with a known bogus invocation in order to see if warnings
> were generated:
> 
> ExecuteCommandStringFormatted("%g %g %g");
> 
> and compiled.  No warnings were generated, even though warnings were
> generated if I used (say) printf instead.  My compiler options were -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes.  I am running gcc-3.2 on a Debian Linux system.
> 
> Is this a real bug, or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 



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