[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add -Wformat and -Werror=format-security compiler flags

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Sat Jul 12 21:27:50 CEST 2014


Hi,

the hardening flags used by Debian contain -Wformat and 
-Werror=format-security to make sure printf and friends are used in a 
safe way. [1]

To detect such problems as early as possible, I think it makes sense to 
use these flags always.

Best regards,
Andreas


1: 
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_FORMAT_.28gcc.2Fg.2B-.2B-_-Wformat_-Wformat-security_-Werror.3Dformat-security.29


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