Re: StackGuard with ... Re: [Paper] Format bugs.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow () FALSE ORG>]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:48:57PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> 2) The C language itself has no way of specifying a MINIMUM number of
> arguments for a function call. Had the compiler noted that setproctitle()
> and similar functions need at least two arguments, the mistakes would
> have been caught from the get-go.
>
> The latter problem can be solved by insisting upon the use of macros
> that mandate a minimum number of arguments and produce a warning
> or error message otherwise.

But setproctitle() does not have a minimum of two arguments.  Witness:
setproctitle("Pointless static message.");

The issue deals more with non-constant format strings.

Dan

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