On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > On 23.08.2012 23:07, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> One problem with this is that I get this warning:
> >> /pgsql/source/HEAD/contrib/pg_upgrade/exec.c: In function ‘s_exec_prog’:
> >> /pgsql/source/HEAD/contrib/pg_upgrade/exec.c:96:2: warning: function might be possible candidate for ‘gnu_printf’
formatattribute [-Wmissing-format-attribute]
> >> /pgsql/source/HEAD/contrib/pg_upgrade/exec.c:96:2: warning: function might be possible candidate for ‘gnu_printf’
formatattribute [-Wmissing-format-attribute]
> >>
> >> I have no idea how to silence that. Ideas?
>
> > You can do what the warning suggests, and tell the compiler that
> > exec_prog takes printf-like arguments.
>
> exec_prog already has such decoration, and Alvaro's patch doesn't remove
> it. So the question is, exactly what the heck does that warning mean?
The warning is about s_exec_prog, not exec_prog.