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Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: printf behaviour with illegal or malformed format string 
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In message <20051212223115.46960.qmail@web36306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, George Paplas writes:
>
>
>--- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
>> >>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()?
>> 
>> Whereever the strings was meant to go, what else can I do ?
>
>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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