c/3190: Re: gcc bug: complaint on %c for strftime

[Zack Weinberg]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

>> people then will be cursing anyone who now removes Y2K (and Y2.1K)
>> warnings for -Wall, assisting in proliferation of bad code, unless by
>> then there have been major improvements through other methods in the
>> ability to write correct code.
>
> Such methods do exist (windowing), and they are used already.

Windowing merely postpones the problem; it should not be encouraged.

zw