Author: jilles
Date: Mon Apr 25 19:15:58 2011
New Revision: 221026
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221026
Log:
printf(1): Move non-bugs from the BUGS section to a new section CAVEATS.
Modified:
head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Mon Apr 25 18:15:45 2011
(r221025)
+++ head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Mon Apr 25 19:15:58 2011
(r221026)
@@ -337,6 +337,16 @@ 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
@@ -348,9 +358,6 @@ 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
@@ -360,10 +367,3 @@ Multibyte characters are not recognized
a problem if
.Ql %
can appear inside a multibyte character).
-.Pp
-Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes
-.Nm
-to interpet the dash as a program argument.
-.Nm --
-must be used before
-.Ar format .
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