Patch to update format checking projects list

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 28 04:16:00 GMT 2000


I've installed the following patch to update the format checking projects
list in projects/index.html.

Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/projects/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 index.html
--- index.html	2000/11/21 23:27:25	1.3
+++ index.html	2000/11/28 12:12:31
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@
 list of format argument have the correct boundedness
 qualification.</li>

+<li>Finer grained warning options for some specific warnings (of use
+to NetBSD); <a
+href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-11/msg00798.html ">patch</a>
+available.</li>
+
 <li>Meaning of "quad" and <code>%q</code>: anything more accurate than
 <code>long long</code>?  See messages <a
 href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1999-02n/msg00164.html ">1</a> and
@@ -232,15 +237,15 @@

 <li>Wide string format support.</li>

-<li>Fix <code>format-va-1.c</code> (see <a
-href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=479&database=gcc ">PR
-c/479</a>).</li>
-
 <li>Handle format attributes on function pointers and typedefs; see <a
 href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-09/msg00339.html ">a message about
 this</a>.  Of course, this should be done so as to work for both C++
 and C.  Essentially, format attributes should be associated with the
-function type rather than with a function name.</li>
+function type rather than with a function name.  There's a more
+general issue here (see <a
+href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-11/msg01150.html ">message</a>):
+function attributes should attach to a declarator instead of a
+declaration.</li>

 <li>Get Marc Espie's <code>__attribute__((__nonnull__))</code> patch
 in (he may be working on a cleaner version that applies to current

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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