[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] New bugprone-unsafe-format-string check (PR #168691)
Yanzuo Liu via cfe-commits
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Sun Sep 27 02:45:41 PDT 2026
https://github.com/zwuis commented:
> I can imagine a checker extension that checks if the destination buffer is larger than limiter size specified in the format string.
> e.g.
> ```
> char buffer[10]
> scanf("%99s",buffer) //warn unsafe string
> ```
> So for now I would leave the checker name as is (bugprone-unsafe-format-string) to allow extensibility for other cases.
Makes sense to me.
New question, but not blocking this PR: IIUC we will not support another style of format string (`std::format_to`). Is there a better check name? Something like bugprone-unsafe-c-format-string?
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/168691
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