[Bug c/40065] New: spurious format string warnings

[bje at gcc dot gnu dot org]

When GCC cannot recognise a format specifier, it produces spurious warnings. 
For example:

gcc/coverage.c:364: warning: unknown conversion type character ‘E’ in format
gcc/coverage.c:364: warning: format ‘%qs’ expects type ‘char *’, but argument 3
has type ‘tree’
gcc/coverage.c:364: warning: too many arguments for format

In this case, %qE was not recognised by the compiler.  It should skip the
corresponding argument and continue to check the remaining format specifiers
and arguments.  At present, it tests the second format specifier against the
first argument, and so on.


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           Summary: spurious format string warnings
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.4.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Keywords: diagnostic
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: bje at gcc dot gnu dot org
  GCC host triplet: powerpc-linux
GCC target triplet: powerpc-linux


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40065