https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84919
--- Comment #12 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #11) > > Until then, the only way to avoid the warning that I can think of is to > exclude from checking arguments passed through the ellipsis, but that will > result in some false negatives for sprintf et al. So the question is: do > the benefits of the warning outweigh the cost of the false positives. > It is a regression that GCC 8 can't compile lib/str_error_r.c in Linux kernel without modifications.