[exim] Re: Exim 4.97-RC1 released

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Author: Daniel Golle
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To: Exim-users
Subject: [exim] Re: Exim 4.97-RC1 released
Hi Jeremy,

thank you for your reply and for taking this issue serious.

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 10:18:16AM +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> On 04/04/2024 01:46, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > I've noticed that the %Y format warning issue discussed here has not
> > really been resolved and I was wondering what is the recommended way to
> > go about it.
> >
> > Disabling all format security warnings doesn't really seem to be the
> > best idea,
>
> You could
> - ignore these spurious warnings


Sadly this could be the best option other than a downstream revert of
the commit introducing the '%Y' format.

> - remove the "printflike" annotations that are on the various functions
> that support these extended facilities


That would also make us loose all the potentially meaningful warnings
for standard format conversions.

> - add yourself to https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47781


Interesting, indeed. I see some old friends in this debate, which has
been going on for more than 13 years and mentions "coming up with a
design" being the "first step" in a message written a year ago.
Surely, this would be the best option, but using Exim 4.96.2 until GCC
defined and made such an improvement (if ever) doesn't sound like a
good idea, obviously.


Cheers


Daniel

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