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From: kingdon@harvey.cyclic.com (Jim Kingdon)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/06/01
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Date: 1996-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
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> In particular, gcc checks the arguments of the printf family against the
> formatter string when the -Wall option is on (actually, I'm sure it's a
> specific warning, but I always use -Wall).
> 
> It only warns with these specific functions; if you declare your own
> function that uses varargs and vsprintf, it won't check it. Yes, it's a
> hack, but it's a really _nice_ hack.

I probably shouldn't respond to a message which is this widely
cross-posted, but this is incorrect.  If you insert the correct
__attribute__ declarations, gcc -Wall will check a user-defined
function too (I know, this just caught a bug in CVS within the last
week or two).