Tom Lane wrote:
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>BTW, I think #ifdef would be a totally unworkable way to attack the
>format-string problem. The code clutter of #ifdef'ing everyplace that
>presently uses %u would be a nightmare; the impact on
>internationalization files would be worse. And don't forget that %llu
>would be the right thing on only some machines; others like %qu, and
>DEC Alphas think %lu is just fine. The only workable answer I can see
>is for the individual messages to use some special code, maybe "%O" for
>Oid. The problem is then (a) translating this to the right
>platform-dependent thing, and (b) persuading gcc to somehow type-check
>the elog calls anyway.
>
You can ask gcc to typecheck format strings for printf type functions
with something like the following:
extern int
my_printf (void *my_object, const char *my_format, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
Ref: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gcc/gcc_77.html
David
