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LANG.STRUCT.ELLIPSIS

Ellipsis

Does not currently detect violations of this recommendation. Although the recommendation in general cannot be automated, because of the difficulty in enforcing contracts between a variadic function and its invokers, it would be fairly easy to enforce type correctness on arguments to the printf() family of functions

ECLAIR

CC2.DCL11

Partially implemented

Warns about inconsistently typed arguments to formatted output functions when the -Wall is used

C0179, C0184, C0185, C0186, C0190, C0191, C0192, C0193, C0194, C0195, C0196, C0197, C0198, C0199, C0200, C0201, C0206, C0207, C0208

41 S, 589 S

Partially implemented

CERT_C-DCL11-a
CERT_C-DCL11-b
CERT_C-DCL11-c
CERT_C-DCL11-d
CERT_C-DCL11-e
CERT_C-DCL11-f

There should be no mismatch between the '%s' and '%c' format specifiers in the format string and their corresponding arguments in the invocation of a string formatting function
There should be no mismatch between the '%f' format specifier in the format string and its corresponding argument in the invocation of a string formatting function
There should be no mismatch between the '%i' and '%d' format specifiers in the string and their corresponding arguments in the invocation of a string formatting function
There should be no mismatch between the '%u' format specifier in the format string and its corresponding argument in the invocation of a string formatting function
There should be no mismatch between the '%p' format specifier in the format string and its corresponding argument in the invocation of a string formatting function
The number of format specifiers in the format string and the number of corresponding arguments in the invocation of a string formatting function should be equal

175, 559, 2408

Assistance provided: reports issues involving format strings

CERT C: Rec. DCL11-C

Checks for format string specifiers and arguments mismatch (rec. partially covered)