On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 07:16:02 PM Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/4860 reports the following bug in AST
> printf(1)
> 
> I have found several ways to core printf in ksh93. For example:
> 
> printf '%1$*2$s' 5 x
> 
> printf '%3$*.*s' 6 2 abc
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

I've known about that one for years and just figured it was intentionally not 
handled gracefully for whatever reason.

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/printf#discussion__section
(first entry)

-- 
Dan Douglas
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