Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6815: Compile time checking of format string (e.g. in printf)

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6815: Compile time checking of format string (e.g. in printf)
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-18 18:53:11

#6815: Compile time checking of format string (e.g. in printf)
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  Reporter:  d.starosud@…             |      Owner:  James E. King, III
      Type:  Feature Requests         |     Status:  closed
 Milestone:  To Be Determined         |  Component:  format
   Version:  Boost Development Trunk  |   Severity:  Not Applicable
Resolution:  wontfix                  |   Keywords:
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Changes (by James E. King, III):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix

Comment:

 This implementation is incomplete so I am going to mark it as wontfix.
 Seems like a cool idea but it wouldn't support dynamically generated
 format specifications and doesn't support the complete syntax of boost
 format... unit tests should be used in consuming code to ensure no
 exceptions occur.

 An interesting place to make a change like this could be in the gcc/clang
 static analyzers... if you build with "-Wformat" they can stop a build on
 a static format string that is malformed or when the wrong sized argument
 is given for a conversion specifier.  Perhaps adding support for
 boost::format to that would be useful, but it still wouldn't take care of
 dynamically generated format specifications.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac10/boost/ticket/6815#comment:4>
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