Re: send_to_charf, Take 2

From: Alex (fletchra@qsilver.queensu.ca)
Date: 07/11/01


> > > >> Not that we could use GCC printf format checking anyway due to
> > > >> handling $-style parameters ourselves.
> Oh, I see, you want compile-time checking.  Well, unless we pull some
> really imaginative macro stunts I don't see how that's possible.  But I
> think runtime checking should be fine.
As otherwise mentioned, if we rely on this, we cut out every other
compiler out there (ie, windows, sun, hp, etc, etc, etc) because only gcc
has that 'enhancement'.

Spending a lot of time reworking something like this for one compiler is
not worth the effort.

Ae.

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