Hi Eric, > > $ printf '%-9223372036854775808s.\n' foo > > foo. > > $ > > Coreutils' printf shares this misfortune. Sadly, it might even be a > bug in the underlying glibc printf(), although I haven't tried to > write a test program to check that, yet.
OK, well for %b and %q bash's built-in printf calls it's own printstr() and that does do things like `fw = -fw' without checking if fw was already the largest negative. Cheers, Ralph.
