RE: cb/pedantic-build-for-developers, POSIX-but-not-C99 and -Wno-pedantic-ms-format

>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I.e. complaining about "%m$" instead of "%" in printf formats, it's
>> easy enough to fix in my case, it's just something I used to
>> de-duplicate a rather complex format, this makes it C(89|99)-compliant:
>>
>>     -       strbuf_addf(&fmt, "%%s%%s%%s-%%0%1$lud.%%0%1$lud-%%s-%%s-%%s",
>>     -                   (unsigned long)tmp.len);
>>     +       strbuf_addf(&fmt, "%%s%%s%%s-%%0%lud.%%0%lud-%%s-%%s-%%s",
>>     +                   (unsigned long)tmp.len, (unsigned long)tmp.len);
>>
>> But in general, do we view -pedantic as an implicit endorsement that
>> we should be using less POSIX and more standard C than we otherwise would?
>>
>> I may be wrong, but I believe that construct is widely portable, we
>> don't use it in the main source, but in the po/ files (so anything
>> that uses git + gettext tests for this already):
>
>Reordering (_("%s %s"), a, b) to ("%2$s %1$s", a, b) is essential to make po/ work.
>
>While I do not think of a reason why it should not work, I am not sure duplicating (%1$s %1$s", a) falls into the same category.
>
>Any solution that makes the per-cent ridden format string is better