Gregory's Server@mhoye I'm not sure what you're trying to illustrate with that example. You seem to be suggesting that compilers should be friendly enough to be usable by people who don't know the programming language. A C programmer has to know the difference between a character constant and a string literal, and what a multicharacter constant is. It's not the tool's job to teach the language syntax.
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 @a @mhoye The tool can't read the programmer's mind. Perhaps the "not a string literal" message should have been an error instead of a warning, since it clearly doesn't conform to the function signature. But beyond that, the programmer should know the difference between a string literal and any other data type. That's basic knowledge of the language. Knowing printf's signature is too, that's part of the language spec. |
@hyc @mhoye It’s not the tools’s job to teach the language, but that’s not what’s being asked for here. It *is* the tool’s job to provide meaningful errors, and it has failed here.