erik.pilkington added a comment.

In D66856#1666616 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D66856#1666616>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> The reflector discussion is still happening and there are issues with 
> ambiguities that we are pretty sure we want to correct. I've got a paper out 
> that touches on some of this: 
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2420.pdf


Nice, thanks for digging into this!



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Comment at: clang/include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticSemaKinds.td:8123
+def warn_format_bool_as_character : Warning<
+  "format specifies a character but argument has boolean value">,
+  InGroup<Format>;
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aaron.ballman wrote:
> How about: `using '%0' format specifier, but argument has boolean value` and 
> then pass in the character specifier used?
Sure, copied that verbatim. 


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Comment at: clang/test/Sema/format-bool.c:26
+#ifdef PEDANTIC
+  // expected-warning@-2 {{format specifies type 'short' but the argument has 
type}}
+#endif
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aaron.ballman wrote:
> Just an FYI (not related to your patch): it seems that at least some people 
> think this should be diagnosed as something other than by 
> `-Wformat-pedantic`. Their thinking is that `-Wformat-pedantic` is for things 
> that are required to have a diagnostic according to the standard but are not 
> sufficiently interesting to warn about by default. This particular case is 
> not required to be warned on by the standard, so it's not really a "pedantic" 
> warning. It sounds like there may be interest in having `-Wformat-pedantic` 
> for that understanding of pedantic, and introduce something like 
> `-Wformat-type-mismatch` for these other cases where there is type confusion 
> but not sufficiently dangerous to warrant warning by default?
That seems like a good idea to me, I agree that "pedantic" in the context of 
warnings means "technically incorrect according to the standard, but not really 
a big deal", which isn't really what -Wformat-pedantic is doing right now.


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