On Jun 7,  1:12pm, tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: gnusrc

| On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| : For now make the warning that we are passing a NULL format to printf
| : like functions, only a pedantic warning. This will allow us to fix the
| : err functions.
| 
| Curiosity:  what is this fixing?

a few PR's that say that err("%s", "") produces 

progname: : Error

The coreect usage of err in that case is err(NULL), but gcc bitches.

christos