Re: top on machines with more than 9 CPUs

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:59:04PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:53:07 +0200
>     From:        Ignatios Souvatzis <is%NetBSD.org@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <20100624145307.GM12982%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>
> 
>   |     const char *short_tag = !multi || ncpu <= 1 ? "CPU: " : "CPU%0*d";
> 
> While I never understood why it should be so, I thought that the printf
> %0 stuff was supposed to be obsolete, and one was supposed to use the
> precision field instead.   (I'm also not sure I would rely upon %0*
> working on all implementations.)

%0*d is supposed to work according to C99 and some C201x I stumbled upon,
so I don't think it's obsolete. What implementations do you suspect to
not implement '...%0*d",x,y)', but to implement '...%*.*d",x,x,y)' ?

Regards,
        -is
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