c/1017: -Wmissing-format-attribute gives too many warnings

[Joseph S. Myers]

The following reply was made to PR c/1017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c/1017: -Wmissing-format-attribute gives too many warnings
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:20:25 +0000 (GMT)

 On 8 Dec 2000, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 
 > >> extern void dbg_log (const char *str, ...)
 > >> __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 1, 0)));
 
 > It came from real code.  Inspired by your patch for syslog on
 > libc-alpha, I added the format checking code to nscd/dbg_log.h - but
 > it seems I misunderstood the GCC manual.  I'll change glibc now to use
 > a 1 for the attribute.
 
  ... that should of course be (__printf__, 1, 2).
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk