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On Sat, 17 May 2003, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >I think the remaining 'format's and 'printf's should be changed to
> >'__format__' and '__printf__', including in Configure.
I agree with that. And it's certainly clear that Configure ought
to be testing whatever perl ends up actually using.
> That depends if HP/UX really undestands the forms without the __
> then why should we limit ourselves to the gcc-ish __ forms?
It wasn't clear to me that HP/UX was actually doing anything useful with
the "attribute". If I recall correctly, the original poster was using a
compiler called "cc-wrapper". I have no idea exactly what that "wrapper"
is actually doing.
More to the point, I think we have plenty of gcc users on p5p anyway who
can catch printf formatting errors; it's probably not worth too much
effort to expand the checking further.
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu