Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build/printf: fix incorrect format specifiers

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 04:42:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH] build/printf: fix incorrect format 
> specifiers"):
> > The following incorrect format specifiers and incorrect number of parameters
> > passed to printf like functions are reported by clang:
> 
> Do we know why our GCC builds do not detect these bugs ?

In general clang has always been able to detect more of those than gcc, I still
remember my ~20 patch series to use clang, and more from others. But no, I
don't know the exact reason why gcc doesn't detect those.

I've forgot to commit the chunk below, which actually enables this.

---8<---
diff --git a/Config.mk b/Config.mk
index 3a1d960..4739f36 100644
--- a/Config.mk
+++ b/Config.mk
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ CFLAGS += -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
 # Clang complains about macros that expand to 'if ( ( foo == bar ) ) ...'
 # and is over-zealous with the printf format lint
 # and is a bit too fierce about unused return values
-CFLAGS-$(clang) += -Wno-parentheses -Wno-format -Wno-unused-value
+CFLAGS-$(clang) += -Wno-parentheses -Wno-unused-value
 
 $(call cc-option-add,HOSTCFLAGS,HOSTCC,-Wdeclaration-after-statement)
 $(call cc-option-add,CFLAGS,CC,-Wdeclaration-after-statement)


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