Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> it was my intent to run this change by you before committing it, but
> it was part of a large diff collection which ignatios has been chewing
> through and revieweing.
>
> The "right" answer here appears to be to define a "format checking"
> function in libc, which verifies that two formats are "compatible"
> with respect to what arguments they expect.  the function would be
> declared to be a format pass-through function (like gettext or catgets).

That sound like a good idea, because the current "solution" is just wrong.
Replacing `printf(fmt, x)' with `printf("%s %d", fmt, x)' doesn't work
since the fmt string in this case contains different formats (e.g. %04u).

    -- Lennart



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        -- Lennart