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Re: cli/1337: -Wformat-nonliteral vs printcmd.c - make "(gdb) printf" host independant
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 18 Aug 2003 04:18:00 -0000
- Subject: Re: cli/1337: -Wformat-nonliteral vs printcmd.c - make "(gdb) printf" host independant
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
The following reply was made to PR cli/1337; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: 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 00:17:01 -0400
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:06:30PM -0000, ac131313@redhat.com wrote:
>
> >Number: 1337
> >Category: cli
> >Synopsis: -Wformat-nonliteral vs printcmd.c - make "(gdb) printf" host independant
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: unassigned
> >State: open
> >Class: maintenance
> >Submitter-Id: net
> >Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 16 18:08:01 UTC 2003
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: ac131313@redhat.com
> >Release: unknown-1.0
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
>
> >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.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer