Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:51:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc -Wall wierdness? Message-ID: <19980126185110.07585@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980126023315.47723@numachi.com>; from Brian Reichert on Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 02:33:15AM -0500 References: <19980126023315.47723@numachi.com>
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On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 02:33:15AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> Howdy-
>
> I'm running 2.2.2-R, with gcc 2.7.2.1, and am getting a weird symptom:
>
> With this simple program:
>
> ---------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> void main ()
> {
> printf("read failed: %s\n", strerror[0]);
>>
> ---------------------------------
>
> gcc -Wall yields, upon compiling:
>
> foo.c: In function `main':
> foo.c:6: warning: char format, different type arg (arg 2)
>
> So, what gives? strerror(3) says to pull in <string.h>, which
> seems to prototype it as char *. Is this a GNU bad, or has FreeBSD
> done something clever, or (horrors) am I missing the point entirely?
Assuming that's really the program, you're missing the point. You're
using the function as an array (strerror [0] instead of strerror
(0)). I don't know why gcc didn't complain about that, but maybe it's
legal (strerror [0] = *sterror). What I don't understand is how you
can subscript a scalar function.
The assembler output indicates that it's just using the address of the
function:
LC0:
.ascii "read failed: %s\12\0"
.align 2
.globl _main
.type _main,@function
_main:
pushl %ebp
movl %esp,%ebp
call ___main
pushl $_strerror ; 2nd parm: address of strerror
pushl $LC0 ; 1st parm: format string
call _printf
Certainly if you change this to:
printf ("read failed: %s\n", strerror (0));
things look a whole lot better. Alternatively, you could write
printf ("read failed: %s\n", sys_errlist [0]);
which is probably what was confusing you.
Greg
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