Re: cppcheck mentions format string error

Toralf Förster <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.trinity
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 01/08/2014 08:04 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
ok

FWIW I created an enhancement request for cppcheck :

Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cppcheck/ticket/5329>

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MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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