<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the
Invariant Sections being "Funding Free Software", the Front-Cover
Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b)
(see below).  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
"GNU Free Documentation License".

(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:

A GNU Manual

(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:

You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
     software.  Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
     funds for GNU development. -->
<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 5.2, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
<head>
<title>Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): Darwin Format Checks</title>

<meta name="description" content="Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): Darwin Format Checks">
<meta name="keywords" content="Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): Darwin Format Checks">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top">
<link href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" rel="index" title="Option Index">
<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
<link href="Target-Format-Checks.html#Target-Format-Checks" rel="up" title="Target Format Checks">
<link href="Pragmas.html#Pragmas" rel="next" title="Pragmas">
<link href="Solaris-Format-Checks.html#Solaris-Format-Checks" rel="prev" title="Solaris Format Checks">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none}
blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller}
div.display {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.example {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.indentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.smallindentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em; font-size: smaller}
div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em}
kbd {font-style:oblique}
pre.display {font-family: inherit}
pre.format {font-family: inherit}
pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif}
pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif}
pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller}
pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller}
pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller}
pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller}
span.nocodebreak {white-space:nowrap}
span.nolinebreak {white-space:nowrap}
span.roman {font-family:serif; font-weight:normal}
span.sansserif {font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal}
ul.no-bullet {list-style: none}
-->
</style>


</head>

<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000">
<a name="Darwin-Format-Checks"></a>
<div class="header">
<p>
Previous: <a href="Solaris-Format-Checks.html#Solaris-Format-Checks" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Solaris Format Checks</a>, Up: <a href="Target-Format-Checks.html#Target-Format-Checks" accesskey="u" rel="up">Target Format Checks</a> &nbsp; [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
</div>
<hr>
<a name="Darwin-Format-Checks-1"></a>
<h4 class="subsection">6.59.2 Darwin Format Checks</h4>

<p>Darwin targets support the <code>CFString</code> (or <code>__CFString__</code>) in the format
attribute context.  Declarations made with such attribution are parsed for correct syntax
and format argument types.  However, parsing of the format string itself is currently undefined
and is not carried out by this version of the compiler.
</p>
<p>Additionally, <code>CFStringRefs</code> (defined by the <code>CoreFoundation</code> headers) may
also be used as format arguments.  Note that the relevant headers are only likely to be
available on Darwin (OSX) installations.  On such installations, the XCode and system
documentation provide descriptions of <code>CFString</code>, <code>CFStringRefs</code> and
associated functions.
</p>


</body>
</html>