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Bug 520422

Summary: Please add a warning for format-security
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: Enhancement/Feature RequestsAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713576
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-08-21 15:25:59 UTC
Hello,

based on the discussion at [1], I'd like to request the addition of the warning, when the compiler produces something because of -Wformat-security.

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91994
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-05-26 13:50:10 UTC
commit a6675b40d06142f43f2592ed09b5c2bfa433c5c2
Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 10 20:47:12 2022 +0100

    install-qa-check.d/90gcc-warnings: add TODO for -Wformat-security

    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/923
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

Not fixed, but related.