On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2010 08:21 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > I saw a printf usage from a Linux forum's post: > > > > # printf "%d\n" "'a" > > 97 > > # > > POSIX requires this behavior, so you could claim that this serves as > documentation: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html > > "If the leading character is a single-quote or double-quote, the value > shall be the numeric value in the underlying codeset of the character > following the single-quote or double-quote." > > Thank you. I've never read the POSIX standards so carefully. :) > -- > Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >