On 4/19/20 5:33 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:40:39 -0400 > From: Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> > Message-ID: <8c5bdd2c-bc61-a885-6a05-690ef7f51...@case.edu> > > | 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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/