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[QUOTE="Harti Brandt, post: 2378514"]
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Keith Thompson wrote:

KT>[...]
KT>> In the standards world 15 years is quite new :-). From time to time I even 
KT>> compile v7 code on modern platforms. Don't forget that there is an aweful 
KT>> lot of old code still running. There are still pdp11 systems running 
KT>> production code. In the bank I was working a couple of years ago they 
KT>> discovered (while preparing for Y2K) that they have code from the 60s 
KT>> running since then every day with most of the programmers already dead or 
KT>> almost so.
KT>> 
KT>> So definitely there is a lot of code written when %p wasn't there yet in 
KT>> many compilers.
KT>
KT>If I compile such code with a modern compiler, I still want to see
KT>warnings about printf format mismatches; some of them are going to
KT>indicate real problems.  If I don't want the warnings for some reason,
KT>I can always set an option to disable them (or run "grep -v" on the
KT>log file).
KT>
KT>The default behavior shouldn't be optimized for compiling 20-year-old
KT>code.

Sure.

harti
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