__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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