From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Louis Taylor <louis@kragniz.eu>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: use correct format characters
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:41:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdkh=oUoQyT5_mjti-3f3JeQf+CzLDtEOCi7zCZ0coSFBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgoxnmsj8GEVFJSvTwdnWm8wVJthefNk2n6+4TC=20e0Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:31 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:01 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > I really think this clang message should be ignored.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > It's really unnecessary as every vararg argument smaller
> > than int size is already promoted to int.
>
> Exactly. It's a pointless warning, making for more complex code, and
> making people remember esoteric printf format details that have no
> reason for existing.
>
> The "h" and "hh" things should never be used. The only reason for them
> being used if if you have an "int", but you want to print it out as a
> "char" (and honestly, that is a really bad reason, you'd be better off
> just using a proper cast to make the code more obvious).
>
> So if what you have a "char" (or unsigned char) you should always just
> print it out as an "int", knowing that the compiler already did the
> proper type conversion.
>
> Linus
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41467
I still think -Wformat helpful for catching completely nonsensical
format strings like printing a floating point type as an integral
type, or not having the correct number of arguments for the number of
format strings. We'll take a look to see if we can differentiate
between those and these "integer widening" ones better.
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-11 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 22:03 Louis Taylor
2019-04-10 22:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-04-10 22:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Louis Taylor
2019-04-10 22:52 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-04-12 15:48 ` David Laight
2019-04-10 23:00 ` [PATCH] " Joe Perches
2019-04-11 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-11 17:41 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
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