Input from a newbie

[Stefan]

On Monday, 9 April 2012 at 20:18:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:


>> The GCC C compiler proves you wrong :) They have warnings. I 
>> guess it's
>> a hack (because printf really doesn't belong into the 
>> compiler) but that
>> doesn't matter. What matters is user-friendliness.
>
> Indeed. dmd should warn about any incompatible data passed as 
> variadic parameters. It's simple to decide: only fundamental 
> types that correspond to C counterparts should be allowed. 
> Hmmm... Even that's not that simple: int is 32 bits in D but 
> unspecified in C.

Maybe printf should not be visible at all - or under a different 
name ("cprintf" or something similar). It's just too tempting...

C variadic arguments are one of the most unsafe features of the C 
language. A total mess.

Stefan