[cfe-dev] Generating printf format specifiers

[Jens Ayton]

On Jan 22, 2010, at 19:35, Dave Keck wrote:
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> I imagine __nsfmt__ would work similarly to __typeof__, but rather than substituting the type, the compiler would substitute the most natural printf format specifier for the given type. There would also be a standard-C __fmt__ that would generate constant C-strings rather than constant NSStrings.

As a side note, it wouldn't actually be necessary to make this distinction if __fmt__() was semantically treated as a string literal, since you can concatenate C string literals to ObjC ones:

@"Hello, " "World"
@"Hello, " __fmt__(userName) "!"
#define __nsfmt__(x) @__fmt__(x)


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Jens Ayton