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Re: Patch for printf's "%If"
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Hamed Malek <hamed at bamdad dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, roozbeh at sharif dot edu, behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:16:29 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Patch for printf's "%If"
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312181631460.5371-100000@bamdad.org>
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Hamed Malek wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
> > At present this 'I' flag doesn't seem to be documented at all in the
> > libc manual. Perhaps you could document exactly what it's meant to do
> > and where it can go?
> Read 'man 3 printf', and search for 'glibc' there, you would find some
> documents.
Yes, I wrote that documentation based on the glibc source code, but
documentation reverse-engineered from the source code may not reflect the
proper specification of what is _intended_ for this flag, which is why the
official glibc manual ought to include something that specifies what is
intended (and so, what applications using the flag can or cannot rely on
continuing to work).
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk