2011-05-13 15:20, Andrew Haley skrev: > A recent patch (of mine, as it happens) broke builds on Debian and > Gentoo. It was caused by a scanf call: > > if (sscanf(chars, "%lx-%*lx", &x) == 1) > > which looks pretty innocuous, but it triggers a warning if -Wformat is > turned on:
> There are two ways to fix this: either force -Wformat and > -Wformat-security on when building HotSpot or force them off. Either > would work, but my vote goes to the former. I think it is better to fix the underlying complaint of the compiler. Thus change the sscanf string to "%lx-%*x" The compiler is complaining that you over specify the second scanned parameter that is going to be thrown away anyway. //Fredrik
