On 7/22/11 10:38 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> 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.
>
> On a related note, I can't interrupt this, e.g. Ctrl-C.
>
> printf '
On 7/22/11 12:32 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>>> On 07/20/2011 07:34 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
BTW, the code for the built-in printf has a bug. For negative
field-widths it negates a negative integer without checking it
will fit. E.g. on this 64-bit machine
