address@hidden: Re: Bug#53221: What to do?]

[Josip Rodin]

Hi,

Here's some information about the info bug regarding positioning parameters
in format strings.

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Subject: Re: Bug#53221: What to do?
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Hi,

At Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:09:14 +0200,
Josip Rodin <address@hidden> wrote:

> There are some comments from upstream people, please see
> http://bugs.debian.org/53221 and tell me how to proceed, should bprintf used
> or not?

I've check bprintf-1.0.tar.gz, but I couldn't find any support 
positioned parameter, such as %2$d. For example,

  bprintf (buffer, "Testing position parameter: %2$s %1$s\n", "1st", "2nd");

will fail.  It should become: "Testing position parameter: 2nd 1st\n"
So it can't be used to fix this bug.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI


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