From: James Antill <james@and.org>
To: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add function attributes to sprintf() and snprintf()
Date: 09 Nov 2001 00:24:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nnadxwectp.fsf@code.and.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011107172401.I14594@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20011107172401.I14594@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl>
Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This patch adds function attributes to sprintf() and snprintf() so the
> compiler can catch formatting errors at compile time. Patch is against
> 2.4.13-ac8, but it should apply cleanly against 2.4.14 as well.
This is done inside gcc as sprintf/snprintf/vsnprintf etc. are all
standard symbols so gcc automatically adds the attributes for them.
In gcc 3.x it's all done in gcc/builtin-attrs.def
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# James Antill -- james@and.org
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2001-11-07 16:24 [PATCH] add function attributes to sprintf() and snprintf() Erik Mouw
2001-11-09 5:24 ` James Antill [this message]
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