From: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:53:33 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: bemoan that _stp_*printf can't be protected with gcc attribute printf
X-Git-Tag: release-1.0.9~83^2~31
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bemoan that _stp_*printf can't be protected with gcc attribute printf
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diff --git a/runtime/string.c b/runtime/string.c
index cdafbf64f..b3f81f0e5 100644
--- a/runtime/string.c
+++ b/runtime/string.c
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@
  */
 
 /** Sprintf into a string.
- * Like printf, except output goes into a string.
+ * Like printf, except output goes into a string.  
+ *
+ * NB: these are script language printf formatting directives, where
+ * %d ints are 64-bits etc, so we can't use gcc level attribute printf
+ * to type-check the arguments.
  *
  * @param str string
  * @param fmt A printf-style format string followed by a