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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 17:04:51 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: refresh++
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Hello.

Martin Str|mberg wrote:
[snip]
> Yes. Why (extremely strong expletive) is gcc complaining about
> perfectly legal and useful code.

It's actually trying to help us out. The warning is about the "zero-length
format string" we're passing to snprintf. It's only an error, because we're
compiling with -Werror now.
 
> The fact that libc happily changes their code to comply with broken
> gcc behaviour does not say much.
[snip]

IMHO using snprintf like this to truncate a string is overkill. Why not just
truncate it using "buf[0] = '\0';"?

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]