[cfe-commits] [patch] -Wformat fixup for vprintf (and friends)

Jean-Daniel Dupas devlists at shadowlab.org
Thu Feb 16 14:39:37 PST 2012


Le 16 févr. 2012 à 19:17, Ted Kremenek a écrit :

> On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <devlists at shadowlab.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This patch implements a long standing FIXME.
>> When calling a non variadic format function(vprintf, vscanf, NSLogv, …), is the format argument references a parameter of the enclosing function, clang never warned.
>> With this change, clang will inhibit the warning only if the parameter is declared as a format string with a compatible type.
>> 
>> 
>> -- Jean-Daniel
>> 
> 
> Hi Jean-Daniel,
> 
> I've noticed this patch contains seemingly unrelated changes, e.g.:
> 
> 
>> // RUN: %clang_cc1 -fsyntax-only -verify -Wformat-nonliteral -pedantic %s
>> 
>> +#include <stdarg.h>
>> +
>> extern "C" {
>> -extern int scanf(const char *restrict, ...);
>> -extern int printf(const char *restrict, ...);
>> +extern int scanf(const char *, ...);
>> +extern int printf(const char *, ...);
>> +extern int vprintf(const char *, va_list ap);
>> }
>> 
> 
> 
> What is the motivation for removing the 'restrict' in these test cases?  It seems completely unrelated, unnecessary, and actually incorrect since clang defaults to c99.

My bad.
I noticed that the restrict keyword was not supported in C++ member declaration and was interpreted as the parameter name instead, so I removed it to avoid confusion, and I erroneously removed it from the C functions too.

Is this new patch OK ?

-- Jean-Daniel



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