Hi Ted & Scott, Ted Unangst wrote on Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 04:03:32AM -0500: > 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. :) Committed. Thanks for checking! Ingo
