Re: [PATCH] afs: use correct format characters

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:31 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:01 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I really think this clang message should be ignored.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > It's really unnecessary as every vararg argument smaller
> > than int size is already promoted to int.
>
> Exactly. It's a pointless warning, making for more complex code, and
> making people remember esoteric printf format details that have no
> reason for existing.
>
> The "h" and "hh" things should never be used. The only reason for them
> being used if if you have an "int", but you want to print it out as a
> "char" (and honestly, that is a really bad reason, you'd be better off
> just using a proper cast to make the code more obvious).
>
> So if what you have a "char" (or unsigned char) you should always just
> print it out as an "int", knowing that the compiler already did the
> proper type conversion.
>
>                              Linus

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41467

I still think -Wformat helpful for catching completely nonsensical
format strings like printing a floating point type as an integral
type, or not having the correct number of arguments for the number of
format strings.  We'll take a look to see if we can differentiate
between those and these "integer widening" ones better.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers