Rongliang, I have prepared a fix for this in the branch barry/bugfix-petscformatconvert which comes from the master branch of PETSc.
Unfortunately it requires many changes so cannot be back ported to previous releases. Thanks for reporting the problem, Barry > On Apr 11, 2018, at 6:17 PM, Rongliang Chen <rongliang.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > When I tried to print a long string using PetscPrintf() I found that it > truncated the string. Attached is a simple example for this (run with single > processor). I used PetscPrintf() and printf() to print the same string and > the printf() seems OK. I am using petsc-3.8.4. > > > Best, > > Rongliang > > <ex111.c>