Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:28:56 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: George Paplas <geopapl@yahoo.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printf behaviour with illegal or malformed format string Message-ID: <7898.1134437336@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:31:15 PST." <20051212223115.46960.qmail@web36306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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In message <20051212223115.46960.qmail@web36306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, George Paplas writes:
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>--- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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>> >>If it is not set, the format string will be output unformatted in
>> >>the message "WARNING: Illegal printf() format string: \"...\".
>> >
>> >Since this check presumably applies to the entire *printf() family,
>> >where do you report the error for {s,f}printf()?
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>> Whereever the strings was meant to go, what else can I do ?
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>And what if you are doing an sprintf to a buffer smaller than your
>warning message?
"Too f**king bad"
It's the programmer who's made a mess in the first place, so he
can't really make many demands in this situation...
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