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From: <trevor.zacks%btopenworld.com@localhost>
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Subject: RE: bin/59749: awk bad test to see if printf supports the %a
format
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:28:27 -0000
Ah,
I think I have been somewhat 'economical' with the details of this.
Am porting (n)awk to windows using Microsoft Vis C++ 2022.
The printf man page says -
a Floating-point Signed hexadecimal double-precision floating-point
value that has the form
[-]0xh.hhhhp[+|-]dd, where h.hhhh are the hex digits (using lower case
letters) of the mantissa, and dd are one or more digits for the
exponent.
The precision specifies the number of digits after the point.
Default precision is 13. If precision is 0, no decimal point is
printed
unless the # flag is used.
^^^^
This would seem to be a lie
But anyway ...
Close this if feel there is nothing to do