[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44245] sprintf ("%0X", 15.2) prints floating point number 15.2 rather than 'F'

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #44245 (project octave):

Yes, it is different.

Also, a format like '%bX' appears to say take the value, convert it to double,
and print the hex representation of the bits.  So that is not what you are
expecting for the 15.2 value.  Instead it is some 16-character hex string that
represents the bytes corresponding to the double precision floating point
value.

We could have a warning about these formats when converting non-integer
values.  I suppose it should be disabled by the --traditional option.

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