Re: *printf questions

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:30:06 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:

>However, he also raised the question as to whether "%010f" and "%010a" are
>supposed to output "       inf" (glibc does this) or "0000000inf" (FreeBSD
>does this).  Personally, I think that FreeBSD has a bug in this regard,

C99+TC1+TC2: 7.19.6.1 The fprintf function
Paragraph 6, discussion on the '0' flag:  ... leading zeros ...
are used to pad to the field width rather than performing space
padding, except when converting an infinity or NaN.

FreeBSD has a bug.
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