Gcc Digest, Vol 29, Issue 7

[Florian Weimer]

* Yair Lenga via Gcc:

> My question: does anyone know how much effort it will be to add a new GCC
> built-in (or extension), that will automatically generate a descriptive
> format string, consistent with scanf formatting, avoiding the need to
> manually enter the formatting string.

It's already possible to do this with C++.  Can't you just use C++
instead?

Thanks,
Florian