The following reply was made to PR bin/158846; it has been noted by GNATS. From: dfil...@freebsd.org (dfilter service) To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/158846: commit references a PR Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:24:35 +0000 (UTC)
Author: jilles Date: Sun Jul 24 17:24:26 2011 New Revision: 224289 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224289 Log: MFC r212374,r221026: printf(1): Document need for "--" before format strings starting with "-". Also move the remark that hexadecimal escapes are not provided to the new CAVEATS section. PR: 158846 Modified: stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Directory Properties: stable/8/usr.bin/printf/ (props changed) Modified: stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 ============================================================================== --- stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Sun Jul 24 11:56:39 2011 (r224288) +++ stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Sun Jul 24 17:24:26 2011 (r224289) @@ -332,6 +332,16 @@ command appeared in It is modeled after the standard library function, .Xr printf 3 . +.Sh CAVEATS +.Tn ANSI +hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. +.Pp +Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes +.Nm +to interpret the dash as a program argument. +.Nm -- +must be used before +.Ar format . .Sh BUGS Since the floating point numbers are translated from .Tn ASCII @@ -343,9 +353,6 @@ The .Cm L modifier may produce additional precision, depending on the hardware platform.) .Pp -.Tn ANSI -hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. -.Pp The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator. When present in the argument for the .Cm b _______________________________________________ svn-src-...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
