[cable] Problem running Cable compiled with GCC 3.2 on HP-UX 11

Carl Nygard cjnygard at fast.net
Mon Dec 23 19:55:19 EST 2002


On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 18:41, Steven Levitt wrote:

> 
> I'm surprised that the compilers with which you develop Cable don't catch
> this problem. Perhaps there is a more strictly conforming mode you can try?

They won't, nor can they.  The parameter to sscanf is just a string, and
compiler's won't scan the string to make sure you haven't goofed the
format specifiers, because you could also be looking for 'ul' in the
text string (or whatever).
-- 
Regards,
Carl




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