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Date:      Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:49:32 +0100
From:      Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r310138 - head/lib/libc/stdio
Message-ID:  <0BDD9ECA-AF91-4CA7-AA5D-DC7AD36AE531@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <00BFA847-B26A-453A-87DB-D5A55C1FAA38@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201612160144.uBG1ipjW016736@repo.freebsd.org> <20161216193128.wgskqt4vc44vdd7o@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <00BFA847-B26A-453A-87DB-D5A55C1FAA38@FreeBSD.org>

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On 17 Dec 2016, at 12:46, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 16 Dec 2016, at 19:31, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>=20
>> Other than that, it makes more difficult to use vanilla gcc with out =
userland.
>> and it is adding more complexity to be able to build freebsd from a =
non freebsd
>> system which some people are working on.
>=20
> Why?  You=E2=80=99ll get some spurious warnings about printf, but =
that=E2=80=99s all.

Unfortunately, we compile large parts of the tree with -Werror.  Thus,
"spurious warnings" will break the build, leaving the user two options:
disabling -Wformat warnings, or disabling -Werror altogether, neither of
which are very recommendable.

As far as I know, there is no -Wno-error-on-undefined-printf-specifiers.
It would also be hard to implement, since after any undefined specifiers
have been encountered, you cannot reason about the following ones
anymore either.

IMHO, if people want to use non-standard specifiers, let them define
their own almost_printf_but_not_quite() functions, and forgo any format
checking.

-Dimitry


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