From: tynor@atlanta.twr.com (Steve Tynor) Subject: Re: A TINY BUG 6 Oct 1997 17:46:48 -0700 Message-ID: <9710062304.AA08705.cygnus.gnu-win32@atlanta.twr.com> References: <34391696.27758E19@softway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jason Zions Cc: tage.westlund@stockholm.mail.telia.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jason Zions wrote: | > #include | > main(){ | > printf("%s\n",sizeof(long)); ..... | No compiler will detect this error at compile-time. The prototype for ..... | printf is (char *, ...); that is, no specific type information for | anything except the first parameter. A compiler would have to read the | first parameter to figure out the expected types for the remaining args, ..... | Summary: learn more about the language before whining about compiler | errors. This is a programmer bug, not a compiler bug. Before you flame, I suggest you read the gcc info page -- the great and all powerful gcc _will_ detect this error -- at least is does on my version of 2.7.2.1 on sparc-solaris. Try using gcc -Wall (or -Wformat for just printf warnings). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Steve Tynor Email: Steve.Tynor@atlanta.twr.com Tower Technology WWW: http://www.twr.com/ Retooling the Software Industry for the 21st Century (sm) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".