On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:26:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > These functions could benefit from the added compile-time > > safety of having the compiler check printf arguments. > > > > Unfortunately, we also sometimes pass an empty format string, > > which will cause false positives with -Wformat-zero-length. > > In this case, that warning is wrong because our function is > > not a no-op with an empty format: it may be printing > > colorized output along with a trailing newline. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > I'm torn on this one. It really does provide us with more compile-time > > safety checks, but it's annoying that "-Wall -Werror" will no longer > > work out of the box. > > Yeah, that is a show-stopper for me X-<. You can "fix" it with -Wno-zero-format-length, so the hassle is not huge. But I am also inclined to just drop this one. We have lived without the extra safety for a long time, and list review does tend to catch such problems in practice. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html