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

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