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Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Martin Sebor <msebor at gmail dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, msebor at redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:35:10 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
References: <20190522224053.15351-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com> <877eah1wmk.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <CAMe9rOo6NB16mBMVFKL63Y0s1U6+d=ThezVj1BCggAwutBAnRA@mail.gmail.com> <87tvdlw62m.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <CAMe9rOqF-VzB9y+K2zvX7up=zmowpb4sewfudo2UhqxLP-oURA@mail.gmail.com> <87mujdw54b.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <ff5c5b6e-18a3-ff18-ffc4-31e0ae8aa2de@gmail.com>

On 5/23/19 9:21 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:

I'd rather discourage
relying on the Glibc printf extension than remove the transformations

or suppress the warning.

I agree that this is a good way to go, as we can't keep fightingcompilers forever. I wrote a patch implementing this suggestion andfiled a bug report proposing it here:


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24616

References:
- [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] Don't pass NULL pointer to error [BZ #24556]
  - From: Martin Sebor

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