tags 13555 notabug close 13555 stop (triaging old bugs)
Hello, > Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. On 26/01/13 05:55 PM, Marcel Boehme wrote:
Then, I suppose, the observed semantic change for the mentioned version pair was _intended_. Found it odd that I didn't find documented that / why length modifiers are 'suddenly' ignored. Thanks for your follow-up!
With no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this bug. -assaf
