From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:04:18 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Manuel Dejonghe wrote:

>> gcc 4.3.1 quite rightfully warnings when printf-style functions use "format
>> not a string literal and no format arguments". Those occurances can (will?)
>> lead to future nasty and surprising bugs. These are just a few of a very large
>> amount of necessary fixes.
>
> Should more buildservers have this specific gcc version installed, so that
> those warnings can get squashed out more quickly and other (more important)
> warnings don't get lost in the yellow sea, or is somebody going to tune to
> that version locally to get them all at once ?

It seems that particular gcc 4.3.1 compiler showing these errors are distro-
patched from Ubuntu (obo's server), as other build servers with 4.3.1 don't
show the same warnings (like my and amiconn's servers). I'm not sure, but
possibly we can enforce these warnings with the command line on all of these
non-warning 4.3.1 ones, and that should be worth looking up.

Nils Wallménius is working on addressing these problems, as can be seen in
FS#9281.

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Received on 2008-08-15