Re: some warnings on mac

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 18, 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > I'm sending a copy of some errors that get reported when I try to
> > compile gnuplot ...
>
> > util.c:524:1: warning: "sprintf" redefined
> > In file included from /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stdio.h:443,
> >                  from stdfn.h:48,
> >                  from util.h:41,
> >                  from util.c:37:
>
> That seems to be an error in stdio.h as provided by SDK.

I think it's due to the business of redefining sprintf in
gnuplot's util.c:

#ifdef HAVE_SNPRINTF
# define sprintf(str,fmt,arg) ... <to use snprintf>

This is prefixed with a comment of "Kludge alert!!" and it does
look funky, but I guess it's harmless.

Allin Cottrell