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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:05:27 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] x11-init.c
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:23:17PM -0400, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> | in the new plan9port update, x11-init.c:352 is missing an argument
> | to the smprint statement. the correct line is:
> 
> Gcc has a way to tell the compiler to check printf like varargs functions.
> Given the impact, maybe the ports should use that, at the cost of some ifdefs.

Gcc does not have a general mechanism for this,
unlike Ken's compiler.  And I think switching
from print to printf simply isn't practical.