On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:22:55PM +0000, sensiblehue wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:08:01PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 04:37:34AM +0000, sensiblehue wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I was wondering why OpenBSD doesn't have a `__printflike' macro in > > > <sys/cdefs.h>? FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonflyBSD have it and it's also > > > available from libbsd on Linux. > > > Personally I think it's cleaner and just as portable if not more > > > portable, because some compilers don't support `__attribute__'. > > > > > > What compilers ? > > GCC < v2.5 and non GNU C compilers, though I see now that OpenBSD > defines it to nothing in that case. What could be an issue is that the > `format' attribute appeared in GCC v2.7, and invalid attributes > generate a warning.
clang has full support for attributes, so your statement is somewhat false.
