Félix Cloutier 92edd74b37 Allow non-variadic functions to be attributed with __attribute__((format)) ...

Clang only allows you to use __attribute__((format)) on variadic functions. There are legit use cases for __attribute__((format)) on non-variadic functions, such as:

(1) variadic templates

```c++
template<typename… Args>
void print(const char *fmt, Args… &&args) __attribute__((format(1, 2))); // error: format attribute requires variadic function
```

(2) functions which take fixed arguments and a custom format:

```c++
void print_number_string(const char *fmt, unsigned number, const char *string) __attribute__((format(1, 2)));
// ^error: format attribute requires variadic function

void foo(void) {
    print_number_string(“%08x %s\n”, 0xdeadbeef, “hello”);
    print_number_string(“%d %s”, 0xcafebabe, “bar”);
}
```

This change allows Clang users to attach __attribute__((format)) to non-variadic functions, including functions with C++ variadic templates. It replaces the error with a GCC compatibility warning and improves the type checker to ensure that received arrays are treated like pointers (this is a possibility in C++ since references to template types can bind to arrays).

Reviewed By: aaron.ballman
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112579
rdar://84629099

2022-07-05 17:26:11 -07:00

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