Preparsing sprintf format strings

[Andreas Schwab]

rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) writes:

> The entire parsing of the format string is affected by the multi-byte
> character encoding.  I don't know how GCC would be able tell that a byte
> with the same value as '%' in the middle of string would actually be
> interpreted as '%' character rather than a part of an extended multibyte
> character.  This can easily happen with the ISO 2022-JP encoding.

The compiler is supposed to know the encoding of the strings.

Andreas.

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