Re: [PATCH 3/3] wt-status: use "format" function attribute for status_printf
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Jul 10, 2013, 05:28 UTC
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- <20130710052859.GA5339@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:26:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes: > > > These functions could benefit from the added compile-time > > safety of having the compiler check printf arguments. > > > > Unfortunately, we also sometimes pass an empty format string, > > which will cause false positives with -Wformat-zero-length. > > In this case, that warning is wrong because our function is > > not a no-op with an empty format: it may be printing > > colorized output along with a trailing newline. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> > > --- > > I'm torn on this one. It really does provide us with more compile-time > > safety checks, but it's annoying that "-Wall -Werror" will no longer > > work out of the box. > > Yeah, that is a show-stopper for me X-<.
You can "fix" it with -Wno-zero-format-length, so the hassle is not huge. But I am also inclined to just drop this one. We have lived without the extra safety for a long time, and list review does tend to catch such problems in practice.
-Peff