On Wed, Jul 23 at 11:22, Vic wrote:
> >
> > As a note for the future it would be really useful if you could provide
> > more information with this sort of query.
>
> Really? I thought that would just be extraneous here; I'm not filing a bug
> report with HantsLUG, I filed it with RH...
So it was just a gripe directed at HantsLUG that you weren't expecting any
feedback on ?
Anyway I've found a useful email[1] that explains it.
Basically the %m (malloc) modifier is a replacement for sscanfs %a (alloc)
which is being introduced to avoid the clash of %a with another ISO C99
usage.
In any case the frysk code is wrong.
Frysk original:
switch (sscanf (a.arg, "%m[^:]:%d", &a.file, &a.line))
Correct using older gcc/glibc:
switch (sscanf (a.arg, "%as[^:]:%d", &a.file, &a.line))
Correct using bleeding edge gcc/glibc:
switch (sscanf (a.arg, "%ms[^:]:%d", &a.file, &a.line))
Either way I think your complaint should be directed at the frysk
developers rather than RH.
[1]
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-09/msg01342.html
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Bob Dunlop
