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has caused the Debian Bug report #448732,
regarding zsh: printf %g -0 outputs 0 instead of -0
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I believe the gist is that since %g calls for a float, -0 should be
parsed as negative zero.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:19:11PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> vin:~> printf "%g %g\n" -0 -0.
> 0 -0
>
> whereas with the printf from the coreutils on etch:
>
> courge:~> /usr/bin/printf "%g %g\n" -0 -0.
> -0 -0
>
> (this will not work on sid due to the bug 448723, but this is a
> different bug since the zsh behavior is the same on any OS).
>
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