Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was surprised to see that according to POSIX, > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/printf.html > > printf does not recognize hexadecimal constants:
Yes, and that's why my POSIX-related patch of yesterday <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/msg00094.html> changed "*p == 'x'" to "!posixly_correct && (*p == 'x')". (Hmm, sorry about the redundant parentheses. :-) > Hexadecimal character constants as defined in the ISO C standard are not > recognized in the format operand because there is no consistent way to > detect the end of the constant. Yes, that's a problem. > The current implementation is consistent (at least in this respect) > with the one in bash's built-in printf command, so I think it's best > to leave it the way it is, at least for the upcoming coreutils-5.0. > What do you think? There are good arguments both ways. I can certainly understand your leaving it the way that it is. However, I would document the incompatibility with C. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
