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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bug 976

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:05:11 -0700

On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:28 AM, Martin Mathieson wrote:

I hadn't realised that gerald fixed this (r18600) by making the format
string "%s". And of course every other call to proto_tree_add_text()
I've seen uses a literal format string.

I don't know if any version of GCC has an option to warn about non- constant format strings; they can be useful (and, in fact, we use them), but it's useful to have some human check them to make sure they're really format strings rather than arbitrary strings.