Gcc Digest, Vol 29, Issue 7

[Yair Lenga]

I prefer not to go into “flame wars” on the merits of C vs C++. My projects are (mostly) in “C” and I am happy with this setup. In addition, given technical / organizational / business issues, switching to C++ not an option.

Yair.

Sent from my iPad

> On Jul 5, 2022, at 3:16 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> * 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
>