(Upstream mainatiner here.) On 09/21/2015 03:08 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Currenly the man page for *printf family is difficult to read with > regards to float, double and long double printing. The man page for > *scanf family is much clearer. AFAIK there is a confusion with an old > C89 behavior, since C99 the actual way to print a double is "lf" and > "llf" for long double. > > Right now it reads as: > > l (ell) A following integer conversion corresponds to a > long int or unsigned long int argument, or a following n conversion > corresponds to a pointer to a long int argument, or a following c > conversion corresponds to a wint_t argument, or a > following s conversion corresponds to a pointer to wchar_t argument. > > Accordingly 'll' and 'L' may need to be updated.
So, I looked at this report, and I can't understand what the problem is that is being reported. What precisely do you think needs fixing? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
