| FMTCHECK(3) | Library Functions Manual | FMTCHECK(3) | 
fmtcheck —
#include <stdio.h>
const char *
  
  fmtcheck(const
    char *fmt_suspect, const
    char *fmt_default);
fmtcheck function scans
  fmt_suspect and fmt_default to
  determine if fmt_suspect will consume the same argument
  types as fmt_default and to ensure that
  fmt_suspect is a valid format string.
The printf(3) family of functions can not verify the types of arguments that they are passed at run-time. In some cases, like catgets(3), it is useful or necessary to use a user-supplied format string with no guarantee that the format string matches the specified parameters.
The fmtcheck function was designed to be
    used in these cases, as in:
printf(fmtcheck(user_format, standard_format), arg1, arg2);
In the check, field widths, fillers, precisions, etc. are ignored
    (unless the field width or precision is an asterisk
    ‘*’ instead of a digit string). Also,
    any text other than the format specifiers is completely ignored.
Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the same parameters. For example, "%ld %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n" is compatible with "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)." However, "%o" is not equivalent to "%lx" because the first requires an integer and the second requires a long, and "%p" is not equivalent to "%lu" because the first requires a pointer and the second requires a long.
fmtcheck function will return
  fmt_suspect. Otherwise, it will return
  fmt_default.
| June 14, 2014 | NetBSD 9.4 |