From: Kurt Roeckx Subject: Use %m[ instead of %a[ in scanf() %a was a gnu extention, but C99 made this a float. So it got changed to %m (supported by glibc 2.7), but %a[ and %as are still supported by glibc. The portability branch changed this from %m to %a again since that's supported by more versions of glibc. However gcc gives a warning about this using -Wformat and we have a new enough libc to use %m. Index: elfutils-0.153/src/addr2line.c =================================================================== --- elfutils-0.153.orig/src/addr2line.c 2012-02-24 22:29:50.000000000 +0000 +++ elfutils-0.153/src/addr2line.c 2012-02-24 22:29:52.000000000 +0000 @@ -455,10 +455,10 @@ bool parsed = false; int i, j; char *name = NULL; - if (sscanf (string, "(%a[^)])%" PRIiMAX "%n", &name, &addr, &i) == 2 + if (sscanf (string, "(%m[^)])%" PRIiMAX "%n", &name, &addr, &i) == 2 && string[i] == '\0') parsed = adjust_to_section (name, &addr, dwfl); - switch (sscanf (string, "%a[^-+]%n%" PRIiMAX "%n", &name, &i, &addr, &j)) + switch (sscanf (string, "%m[^-+]%n%" PRIiMAX "%n", &name, &i, &addr, &j)) { default: break; Index: elfutils-0.153/tests/line2addr.c =================================================================== --- elfutils-0.153.orig/tests/line2addr.c 2012-02-24 22:29:50.000000000 +0000 +++ elfutils-0.153/tests/line2addr.c 2012-02-24 22:29:52.000000000 +0000 @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ { struct args a = { .arg = argv[cnt] }; - switch (sscanf (a.arg, "%a[^:]:%d", &a.file, &a.line)) + switch (sscanf (a.arg, "%m[^:]:%d", &a.file, &a.line)) { default: case 0: