Subject: Re: A TINY BUG
From: [email-masked] (Steve Dum)

6 Oct 1997 12:50:48 -0700
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
References: <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]

In message <[email-masked]>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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