-Wformat cannot use const struct fields as format strings on purpose?

Basin Ilya basinilya@gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 12:07:00 GMT 2017


Hi.

Here's a small piece of code:

	static struct {
		const char fmt[10];
	} const x = { "%d\n" };
	static const char * const fmt = "%d\n";
	printf(fmt, 1);
	printf(x.fmt, 1);

The second `printf` produces a warning:

    test.c:105:10: warning: format string is not a string literal
[-Wformat-nonliteral]
                    printf(x.fmt, 1);
                           ^~~~~

>From my point of view both format strings are identical. Why can't gcc
deduce the format string in the second case?



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