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From: "pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug c/26542] bogus diagnostic with -pedantic?: format '%p'; expects type 'void*', but argument 2 has type 'A*'
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061208043744.11046.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-26542-7667@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>



------- Comment #6 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2006-12-08 04:37 -------
> I'd like to (probably uselessly but still) argue for reopening this bug and
> removing this warning. The interpretation of the standard text is open to
> questions: IMHO an "A *" pointer is a pointer to void, too, as any pointer in C
> is, implicitely, pointer to void. But most importantly I think this warning is
> absolutely useless and the only way to get rid of it is ugly (you need an
> explicit cast to "void *").

Except IIRC a target could have void* pass different from a char* when it comes
to var-args so really the warning is still correct.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26542


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-08  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-03  9:50 [Bug c/26542] New: bogus diagnostic with -pedantic?: format &#8216;%p&#8217; expects type &#8216;void*&#8217;, but argument 2 has type &#8216;A*&#8217; pluto at agmk dot net
2006-03-03 11:50 ` [Bug c/26542] bogus diagnostic with -pedantic?: format '%p'; expects type 'void*', but argument 2 has type 'A*' rguenth at gcc dot gnu dot org
2006-03-03 12:45 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
2006-03-03 14:07 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
2006-07-24 17:03 ` vz-gcc at zeitlins dot org
2006-07-24 17:16 ` pluto at agmk dot net
2006-12-08  4:37 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org [this message]
2006-12-08 11:08 ` vz-gcc at zeitlins dot org
2006-12-08 18:17   ` Andrew Pinski
2006-12-08 18:18 ` pinskia at gmail dot com
2009-02-10 22:23 ` jason dot orendorff at gmail dot com

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