Thank you.
Some of the versions of GCC that I use also checks the arguments of
printf etc.
using the first parameter string constant, if available. When moving
programs
from OS/2 to Linux, I discovered some hidden errors this way.
I think it's a good idea to have different compilers at hand; if you
have a critical
piece of software, use all of them. Same goes for operating systems; my
C programs
should run the same way on Windows, Linux, OS/2 and z/OS ... sometimes some
errors show up only on one of the platforms ...
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 29.04.2016 um 14:49 schrieb David Crayford:
That's an excellent answer Bernd! One of the reasons why I prefer C++
over C is that iostreams are not only typesafe but they handle
variable length parameter lists by simple function calls. The downside
is that the extra function call overhead is more expensive so it's a
trade-off. It's also significantly more verbose than a simple
printf() but there are decent alternatives
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/libs/format/doc/format.html.
Just for fun http://www.horstmann.com/.
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