------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2004-10-11 12:54 ------- I concur with Giovanni: this is a case very much like the format checking for printf and attribute sentinel. If you simply remove the attribute statement, then the generated code is exactly the same in all cases, the attribute is there only to enable the compiler to emit more warnings. W.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17920
