On 01/26/2013 01:41 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote: > $old/printf "%hi\n" 0xFFFF > -1 > $printf "%hi\n" 0xFFFF > 65535
None of these length modifiers are specified by POSIX, so we're talking about what it's more useful for printf to do, rather than whether this is a violation of a standard. coreutils printf should agree with Bash printf, and Bash printf ignores the modifiers, so if we change coreutils we should change Bash too. I suppose that 'printf' could change its behavior, and use (say) 32-bit int for '%li' on a x86 but 64-bit int on x86-64, thus exposing the native machine widths to the user. However, for shell scripts I expect that more people prefer portability to exposing the machine widths, so the current behavior is better.
