warning about %s in format string


James Walker
 

Clang has a warning option, -Wcstring-format-directive, that produces a warning "Using %s directive in NSString which is being passed as a formatting argument to the formatting method" on a line like:

NSString* x = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"File %s", __FILE__];

Can someone please explain to me why this is something worth avoiding, or worth warning about?  I tried Googling, couldn't find anything.

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