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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-20 00:09:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-20 00:09:59 +0100 |
| commit | 2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b (patch) | |
| tree | ac9d11e47616b23a9c4feb5e5a19468008b8a770 /doc/posix-functions/printf.texi | |
| parent | e606e4f86f58f108829f84777e565eebd0a467e7 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b.tar.gz | |
Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi b/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6ce2c04c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +@node printf +@section @code{printf} +@findex printf + +POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/printf.html} + +Gnulib module: printf-posix + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function does not support size specifiers as in C99 (@code{hh}, @code{ll}, +@code{j}, @code{t}, @code{z}) on some platforms: +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 2006, mingw, BeOS. +@item +printf of @samp{long double} numbers is unsupported on some platforms: +mingw, BeOS. +@item +printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an +incorrect result on some platforms: +AIX 5.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw. +@item +This function does not support the @samp{a} and @samp{A} directives on some +platforms: +glibc-2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS. +@item +This function does not support the @samp{F} directive on some platforms: +NetBSD 3.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS. +@item +This function does not support format directives that access arguments in an +arbitrary order, such as @code{"%2$s"}, on some platforms: +NetBSD 3.0, mingw, BeOS. +@item +This function doesn't support the @code{'} flag on some platforms: +NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 2006, mingw. +@item +printf @code{"%010f"} of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded +with zeroes) on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 2007, mingw. +@item +This function does not support precisions larger than 512 or 1024 in integer, +floating-point and pointer output on some platforms: +mingw, BeOS. +@item +This function can crash in out-of-memory conditions on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize |