Re: bin/39135: /usr/bin/awk: printf supports extra- (and broken) formatting rules

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39135; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/39135: /usr/bin/awk: printf supports extra- (and broken) 
formatting rules
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:24:41 +0100

 On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:00:06PM +0000, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/39135; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: bin/39135: /usr/bin/awk: printf supports extra- (and broken) 
 > formatting rules
 > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:58:12 -0400
 > 
 >  On 11-Jul-08, at 8:35 PM, cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
 >  
 >  > awk 'BEGIN {printf "%llu\n", 123}'
 >  
 >  
 >  Hah!  Interesting side effect of directly using printf(3)!  ;-)
 
 So using %n will have interesting effects ...
 
        David
 
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