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Re: Format String issue w/ patch
From: |
Roman Hunt |
Subject: |
Re: Format String issue w/ patch |
Date: |
Thu Nov 14 15:29:01 2002 |
On 13 Nov 2002 20:00:07 -0500
David O'Toole <address@hidden> wrote:
# There were two "%" characters because I wanted to print
# out a single
# literal "%" (via fprintf to stderr.) Changing it to a
# single percent
# character will actually introduce an error, since
# fprintf will start
# looking for an argument, right...?
it most certainly will but that's why I put in ...
- fprintf(stderr, message);
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s", message);
#
# It seems I've got some inconsistency in the error
# messages though,
# thanks for pointing that out.
no prob I think the format strings presence in the fprintf
call will allow you not worry about '%' escape sequences
and allow it to print whatever is contained within the
string.
#
# A good portion of the core is messy because it uses
# plain C for objects,
# which is error-prone and usually looks obfuscated. This
# is the primary
# reason I've started re-writing it in Objective-C (you
# might already
# notice some Objc files in the CVS repository, and more
# are on the way.)
Cool I am looking into learning objC now i hope I can
help.
BTW sorry if this is the second time youve recieved this
but I never saw my reply come back through the list. Have
a good day. Anyone ever goto #octal on
openprojects.net????
-roman