Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> A recent report against sh-utils' printf (included below) led me to the
> conclusion that there is a bug in GNU libc's implementation of printf.
> BTW, this works fine when using Solaris5.6 libraries.

It's not atually a bug since such a format is well beyond the limits
an implementation has to support.  I've fixed it nevertheless for
2.1.3 and you'll get now enormously long output in this case (given
enough virtual memory that is).

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