On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:11:19PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Sure, there are some serious cases, but ... there are many more > further spread issues in C/C++-sources which people have been > ignoring ever since Fedora and RH Linux distros exist. > > IMO, -Wformat-security is almost negibile in comparison to these and > you are making way too much noise about it than it deserves. C/C++ sucks and it's sad that developers won't use more reliable languages and techniques. However, *given* that there exists a lot of C/C++ code that we'd like to run, it's better to try to harden it than to give up. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
