GNU bug report logs - #7325
new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #110 received at 7325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 7325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: Re: bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf
	formats like %05.3s
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:24:52 -0700

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On 11/11/2010 07:26 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>>   %.*X => precision determined by fstimeprec
>>>>
> 
> An alternative perhaps that doesn't require the above override
> behavior and is also forwards compat, is to use %.0X rather than %.*X

That sounds nicer to me.  I look at %.*X and think I have to supply the
precision, but %.0X as a mnemonic of 'show full precision but suppress
trailing zeros' kind of makes sense, and looks nicer than %#.X.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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