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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2010-12-22 15:13:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2010-12-22 15:14:38 -0800 |
| commit | c5d4f8b1cc872fbd3be75e160fd0483fc9181caf (patch) | |
| tree | 53452dab6a19ebda33d33acb344501bb19e72b8a /doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi | |
| parent | 998bbb3b39d3c7245000b03b2ce16996da2ad256 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-c5d4f8b1cc872fbd3be75e160fd0483fc9181caf.tar.gz | |
doc: document Solaris printf bug with large float precisions
* doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi (dprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi (fprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/printf.texi (printf):
* doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi (snprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi (sprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi (vdprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi (vfprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi (vprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi (vsnprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi (vsprintf):
Mention that these functions mishandle large floating point
precisions on Solaris 10. The same bug is also present in Solaris
8, and I assume earlier. This causes "cd gnulib-tests; make
check" to fail on Solaris 8 (and I assume, later) when building
the latest coreutils, in test-vasprintf-posix's call to
my_asprintf (&result, "%.4000f %d", 1.0, 99). I have not checked
the wide flavors (e.g., wprintf) so this patch just updates the
documentation for the narrow ones.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi b/doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi index 5ebd16f601..cce9627625 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi @@ -61,4 +61,9 @@ MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0. Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function mishandles large floating point precisions +(for example, formatting 1.0 with @samp{"%.511f"}) +on some platforms: +Solaris 10. @end itemize |