Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I looked at the Fedora Core 2 patches for coreutils, and noticed that
> they patched coreutils printf to ignore "ll" length specifiers in
> formats like "%lld".  This reminded me of a long-ago task that I
> didn't finish with coreutils: add support to "printf" for wider
> integers, for compatibility with Bash.  I looked into all the
> incompatibilities between Bash and coreutils printf (and looked at the
> POSIX spec too) and came up with the following proposed patch.
> This patch should remove the need for the Fedora Core 2 patch in
> this area.
>
> 2004-07-06  Paul Eggert  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>       printf cleanup, to avoid undefined behavior, to add support for
>       formats that Bash supports, and to support wide integers like
>       Bash does.

Thank you!
I've applied that.


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