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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:29:42 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure
Message-ID:  <20020710212942.GC4189@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200207102122.g6ALMCi1004528@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200207100958.g6A9wFmY072199@bowie.private> <20020710172346.GB1118@hades.hell.gr> <xzpadoznvcv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207102122.g6ALMCi1004528@apollo.backplane.com>

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On 2002-07-10 14:22 +0000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> :> How does this look for fixing this warning?
> :
> :No, gcc should accept a NULL format string for err(3).  It looks like
> :__printf0like is broken.
>
>     Oops.  I've already starting changing the calls to err().   I would
>     really like buildworld to work and there aren't too many of them, and
>     besides a little more verboseness for some of these failures is not a bad
>     thing.

The extra verboseness is fine, and I was almost finished posting a
note that mentioned it.  But I didn't thinking that the __printf0like
bugs will never be fixed if we hide them by patching chmod.

Nevertheless, I do agree that a more verbose error message is likely
to be an improvement in this particular case.


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