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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:11:26PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > Jürgen Bömmels: > # The other warnings I found are a little bit more complicated > # - nonliteral formats in Parrot_vsprintf_s > > If I understand what is meant by this warning, it's trying to warn about > the case where you accidentally forgot to give sprintf a format. I can > assure you that this is no accident; just cast around it or whatever. It's where the first argument to printf-like function isn't a literal string, and the compiler has been instructed to check that the arguments to printf-like functions correspond to the % format specifiers in the format string. The compiler is warning that it's unable to make this check because the format isn't known at compile time, and I don't know of a solution. (Annoyingly, gcc doesn't seem to come with pragmas to say "I acknowledge the next line does something that I've asked you to warn me about, so don't warn". I think we've still got the warnings from passing const pointers to free() and realloc(), and you can't (directly) cast them away. Although I believe that you can circumvent that warning about casting away const by using a union of void * and const void *, and laundering your const-ness away with it) Nicholas Clark