[ECOS] No printf-format checking for snprintf & friends?

[Jonathan Larmour]

Martin Buck wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is there any particular reason why the eCos libc doesn't enable gcc's
> printf-format checking for functions like snprintf()? AFAIK, gcc does
> this by default for ISO-C functions, but not for the non-ISO stuff, so
> stdio.h would have to specify __attribute__ ((__format ... )) for them.
> Anybody interested in a patch?

I believed that GCC automatically does it for functions called printf()
etc. I thought it was only non-standard functions that don't get the
checking. Or are you saying that GCC doesn't do this for snprintf() in
particular?

If you do add this, use a macro (and define it in cyg_type.h) for it.

Jifl
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