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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:39:04 +0600 (NS)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        kris@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc __attributes for format strings
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011272238230.4015-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200011271624.eARGOir89679@Magelan.Leidinger.net>

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hi, there!

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> >From gcc.info (on -current):
> ---snip---
> `format (ARCHETYPE, STRING-INDEX, FIRST-TO-CHECK)'
>      The `format' attribute specifies that a function takes `printf',
>      `scanf', or `strftime' style arguments which should be type-checked
>      against a format string.  For example, the declaration:
> 
>           extern int
>           my_printf (void *my_object, const char *my_format, ...)
>                 __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
> 
>      causes the compiler to check the arguments in calls to `my_printf'
>      for consistency with the `printf' style format string argument
>      `my_format'.
> [...]
> ---snip---
> A search in gcc.info for printflike didn't show a match.

it is defined in /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h

/fjoe



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