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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:32:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD specific strftime(3) format specifiers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102011232100.853-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010128102544.A2192@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>

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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Alex Kapranoff wrote:

> Hi to all.
> gcc supports strftime format string checking and issues a warning when
> it encounters some unknown format specifier. FreeBSD strftime has
> several additional format chars which gcc knows nothing about.
> 
> This can easily be seen when compiling /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw:
> pw_user.c:1175: warning: unknown conversion type character `f' in format
> pw_user.c:1177: warning: unknown conversion type character `f' in format
> 
> Are there chances that this could be fixed? I suppose, the patches
> should be submitted to gcc developers and the changes will get into
> our tree on next gcc source import?

I believe there is a -fformat-extensions flag that gets around this
problem.  Check out the kernel build for the actual flag as it's used
there.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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