Re: minor compiler warning on OpenBSD

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> >> while looking at some other stuff I noticed that we have the following
> >> compiler warning on OpenBSD 4.0/amd64 with the OS supplied compiler:
> >> initdb.c:2187: warning: `%x' yields only last 2 digits of year in some
> >> locales
> >
> > Yeah, mine complains about that too. Peter's response was "get a newer
> > compiler" --- apparently the gcc folks thought better of this warning
> > after the Y2K panic subsided.
>
> hmm ok - but at least on openbsd we will have to accept that warning for
> a few years to go (4.1 shipped with 3.3.5 and it seems that the
> upcoming 4.2 is not getting an upgraded compiler either)

My local manpage for strftime says that we can get around this warning
by overloading it with something like

size_t
my_strftime(char *s, size_t max, const char *fmt,
const struct tm *tm)
{
return strftime(s, max, fmt, tm);
}

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