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Description of problem:
printf() format warnings for %p (and %s and %n) format printed with -pedantic
shows bad variable types, one level of pointerness is missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a p.c file with following contents:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
  double *a, **b;
  printf("%p, %p\n", a, b);
  return 0;
}

2. compile it

gcc -c -Wall -pedantic p.c

  

Actual Results:
p.c: In function `main':
p.c:4: warning: void format, double arg (arg 2)
p.c:4: warning: void format, pointer arg (arg 3)


Expected Results:  Hard to say.  What I definitely don't expect is the `double
arg' on the second line, when arg 2 is POINTER to a double, not a double.

So expected result is anything between no warnings (when I'm printing pointers
with %p one is as good as another) and fully descriptive warning like (crazy,
but the kind of thing one expects from -pedantic):

p.c: In function `main':
p.c:4: warning: void* format, double* arg (arg 2)
p.c:4: warning: void* format, double** arg (arg 3)


Additional info:
While `double arg' corresponds to `void format' in the warning in the sense both
have one level of pointerness removed, it's confusing compared to

printf("%d", *a);

which prints

p.c:5: warning: int format, double arg (arg 2)

Both *a and a can't be double simultaneously.

The same happens for %s and %n conversion specifiers.