strong/weak typing and pointers

[Aahz]

In article <2upaauF2e8107U1 at uni-berlin.de>,
Diez B. Roggisch <deets.nospaaam at web.de> wrote:
>Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
>>attribution lost:
>>>
>>>      printf("value is %d", f);
>> 
>> Note that this is also an example showing that C++ does contain a little
>> bit of dynamic typing, too, isn't it?
>
>Where do you get that idea from? Modern compilers are aware of printf,
>and have special type-checking rules built into them that verify
>that you pass the right number and types of arguments for the format
>string. And thats totally static, as it is done at compiletime!

The format string has to be static?  That's news to me.
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