On 4/19/20 5:33 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:40:39 -0400
> From: Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> | Nobody, including POSIX, is rational, then.
>
> There is no %q in POSIX printf currently, so the issue
> does not arise there, and in any case, its objective is
> not to be rational, but to document what works
I'm referring to the specification of %b that I quoted in another message,
which uses the precision after the argument is expanded.
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