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Re: A printf question.

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In reply to "James Kuyper" who wrote the following:

[...]

> True - but diagnostics are always permitted. The OP seems to be be
> concerned about whether a diagnostic is mandatory for this code. It's
> not clear whether he's asking why this particular compiler fails to
> generate the diagnostic that he thought was mandatory, or whether he's
> asking why there's no text in the standard making a diagnostic
> mandatory. In the former case, it would belpful to know which rule he
> thinks is violated by this code; in the latter case, it would be helpful
> to know what rule he thinks should be added to the standard.
> --
> James Kuyper

After writing the original code, I found the following text in K&R:

"
A warning: printf uses its first argument to decide how many arguments follow 
and what their type is. It will get confused,
and you will get wrong answers, if there are not enough arguments of if they are 
the wrong type. You should also be aware of
the difference between these two calls:
printf(s); /* FAILS if s contains % */
printf("%s", s); /* SAFE */
"



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