Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> That stuff is a very serious trap not only for the unwary, but also
> for experienced programmers.  Less than a month ago, i discussed
> the matter with a senior programmer from the GNU project who has
> been maintaining important software over there for a long time and
> guess what he said?  Something like "yes, you are right, that stuff
> is dangerous.  I had a nasty bug in one of my programs just last
> week because a printf mangled numbers in a locale-dependent way i
> didn't anticipate."
> 
> I think this is exactly what CAVEATS is good for.

ok. mangled numbers from code generators is one of my favorites. :)

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