Re: Fwd: [PATCH] fix format security

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > It is a bit unfortunate that this warning comes up almost monthly
> 
> Perhaps we should add something like the following to gnulib/lib/gettext.h, once we have a Clang bug report number? Although drastic, this would save us time and we'd still get static checking when compiling with GCC, except for printf calls in clang-only code (which should be rare).
> 
> /* Pacify clang false alarm
>     <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/987654321>.  */
> #ifdef __clang__
> # pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wformat-security"
> #endif

Nice idea. But I still [1] think that it is too drastic. Some people
might be really upset.

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-01/msg00090.html