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Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:15:39 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Peter Fales on 2/4/2008 4:00 PM:
> |    It looks like the system snprintf is buggy.  I suspect the '-' 
> ...
> And that violates C99/POSIX.  Duplication of the `-' flag should not
> disable it.

In some defense of HP-UX 10.20 it was released IIRC in 1996 which was
well before this last round of C99/POSIX.  Support for it has long
ended.  I am not surprised it didn't conform to a standard which
didn't exist when it was released.  :-)

Bob





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