warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Tue Mar 12 13:05:00 GMT 2002


Karel Kulhavy <clock@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> Hello
> 
> Please note that warning
> 
> "warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year"
> 
> is absolutely stupid and according to my opinion should be immediately removed.
> It is clearly stated in manpage that %y yields only 0-99. It is not necessary
> to attach random pieces of manpages into gcc's output, no matter how the
> manpages are relevant to the code being compiled.

You can use -Wno-format-y2k to disable this warning.  I hope the name
of the option will help to explain why the warning exists.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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