Re: cppcheck mentions format string error

Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.trinity
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
 > heise.de reported about a security flaw in xorg-server found by cppcheck - so I just gave it a try.
 > 
 > It reports :
 > 
 > ~/devel/trinity $ cppcheck ./ --force --quiet
 > [devices.c:90]: (warning) %a in format string (no. 2) requires 'float *' but the argument type is 'char * *'.
 > 
 > 
 > Is it correct ?
 
no. Looks like it doesn't understand the gnu %as extension, and thinks it's %a followed by 's'.

That extension isn't C99, but given portability isn't really a goal for trinity, I'm
not overly bothered by it.

	Dave
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