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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why doesnt this work!
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 11:45:35 -0700
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Thomas Demmer wrote:

> Just say  gcc -Wall (a little less will do, too, check the docs) and
> the compiler will tell you a bunch of things you did wrong.
> A brilliant switch for native speakers of PASCAL, like me ;-)

Compilers cannot as a matter of principle catch all of these kinds of
warnings.  After all, the format strings for the printf family can be
dynamically built, so at compile-time, under some circumstances, there can be
no way for the compiler to know what types of arguments the format string
implies.

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