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Re: cli/1337: -Wformat-nonliteral vs printcmd.c - make "(gdb) printf" host independant


The following reply was made to PR cli/1337; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: cli/1337: -Wformat-nonliteral vs printcmd.c - make "(gdb) printf" host independant
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:34:59 -0400

 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:34:09AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
 > >Description:
 > >
 > >>printcmd.c is taking user input strings and then passing them through
 > >>to printf.  It should, I think, instead implement a full "%" parser. 
 > >>If nothing else it would eliminate a few limitations (such as %ll
 > >>support being dependant on the host's CC and printf).
 > >
 > >
 > >Could we use the publicly available libvsnprintf for this?  I think
 > >it's a GNU or else public domain project; there was some talk about
 > >adding it to libiberty.
 > 
 > Does it use <stdargs.h>?  If not that, and the type casting system, 
 > would also need to be abstracted.  GDB's printf [effectively] extracts 
 > its argument list from an array of 'struct value'.
 
 No idea.  It could probably be adapted.
 
 -- 
 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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