On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 11:30:35PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 02:08:12PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > On Sat Aug 22 10:48:05 1998, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Some fun :-) :-( from using egcs 1.1. on a mac68k:
> 
> I did some analyzing on Bernds system (didn't dare to break my toolchain),
> and found that the strings produced by new egcs in the assembler output are
> broken already.
> 
> I chased this further down, and finally found that the first character output
> by a %o directive is eaten somewhere.
> 
> (gcc creates the \12 instead of \n in the assembler output, I guessed by 
> using \\%o to format, so I tried that directly).

Its worse: only the last character of an octal value is ever printed. if 
you specify a field width, it is padded with blanks.
> 
> Now, somebody: please debug the octal formatter. I'm going to bed.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Ignatios