Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a glibc 2.3.6 system, 'printf' produces no output for a %f directive in > some cases: > > $ /packages/gnu/bin/printf --version > printf (GNU coreutils) 6.9 > $ /packages/gnu/bin/printf %.100000000f 17 > <no output> > $ echo $? > 0 > > I would have expected an error message and an exit status of 1. > > Likewise for %e instead of %f. > > 100000000 is far less than INT_MAX.
Thanks for the report. On both fedora rawhide- and debian-unstable-based systems, with coreutils-6.9 and the latest sources, I get this: $ ./printf %.100000000f 17 |wc -c 100000003 maybe your libc is responsible? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
