Re: printf error?

[Chet Ramey]

Robinson, Mark wrote:
> hi
> 
> Compiled bash version 3.1.16 on Solaris 9 (AIX 5.1 also shows problem)
> after configuring without parameters.  Got this error:
> 
> %  ./bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.1.16(3)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> % ./bash -c 'printf "%0.5d\n" 1'
> 1

It's a bug in bash's asprintf/snprintf replacement.  This will happen
on all systems without an asprintf() in libc.  I will fix it.

Chet
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