On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 10:52, Kalamatee <kalamatee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > it is used by acpica to implement snprintf and sprint -: > > https://github.com/acpica/acpica/blob/master/source/components/utilities/utprint.c > > see line 837. > > Clearly Format and Args aren't known at compile time, however the invocation is correct and valid so I don't get why the incorrect warning is shown. > > (I could understand a message similar to other -format ones that suggest the operation may overflow the buffer - but that's not what the diagnostic says, it implies the second parameter cant be over INT_MAX). It doesn't say it can't be over INT_MAX, it just warns you that it is over INT_MAX (because that means no checking on the output length).
