Hi,
This patch adds function attributes to sprintf() and snprintf() so the
compiler can catch formatting errors at compile time. Patch is against
2.4.13-ac8, but it should apply cleanly against 2.4.14 as well.
Erik
-- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/Index: include/linux/kernel.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/erik/cvsroot/elinux/include/linux/kernel.h,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.143 diff -u -r1.1.1.143 kernel.h --- linux/include/linux/kernel.h 2001/11/07 00:36:34 1.1.1.143 +++ linux/include/linux/kernel.h 2001/11/07 15:49:54 @@ -60,9 +60,11 @@ extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int); extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *,char **,unsigned int); extern long long simple_strtoll(const char *,char **,unsigned int); -extern int sprintf(char * buf, const char * fmt, ...); +extern int sprintf(char * buf, const char * fmt, ...) + __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3))); extern int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *, va_list); -extern int snprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...); +extern int snprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char * fmt, ...) + __attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4))); extern int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args); extern int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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