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Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0

July 21, 2017 Jul 21, 2017 07/21/17
Yuriy Solodkyy
This post as well as described diagnostics significantly benefited from the feedback by Mark, Xiang, Stephan, Marian, Gabriel, Ulzii, Steve and Andrew. Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 release comes with a number of improvements to the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler's diagnostics. Most of these improvements are in response to the diagnostics ...

Format Specifiers Checking

June 22, 2015 Jun 22, 2015 06/22/15
Yuriy Solodkyy
By popular request, in Visual Studio 2015 RTM, we’ve implemented the checking of arguments given to printf/scanf and their variations in the C standard library. You can try the examples from this post in our online compiler.SummaryHere is a list of all the formatting warnings that were introduced: positional arguments in _p functions , ...