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From: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Lint like util for printf and friends
Summary: SVr4 lint knows about printf, etc.
Keywords: lint, printf, varargs
Message-ID: <5034@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 22:00:30 GMT
References: <srp.652646060@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs NJ USA
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< Does anyone know of a lint like tool that will check the matchup of the
< format string of printf (or any varargs function /w a format string) to
< it's arguments?  I'd like to get ahold of such a utilitiy.

The System V release 4 version of lint knows about printf and scanf formats.
It also provides a /*PRINTFLIKEn*/ and /*SCANFLIKEn*/ lint pragma so that
you can indicate other functions which also accept printf formats.

					Tony Hansen
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