Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/10/06/12:50:48
In message <34391696 DOT 27758E19 AT softway DOT com>you write:
>> I have found that the following bad code gives "exception" at run
>> time instead of error message at compilation time (b18 Win95):
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> main(){
>> printf("%s\n",sizeof(long));
>> }
>
>No compiler will detect this error at compile-time. The prototype for
>printf is (char *, ...); that is, no specific type information for
Well, actually, if you compile this with a -Wall gcc will diagnose it, and
emit the warning
f.c:3: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 2)
steve
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