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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] printf.3: Fix description of %a hexfloat output
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 09:30:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200807083006.GA2498449@redhat.com> (raw)

The description of hexadecimal floating-point output is missing a
character describing the exponent. The guarantee of at least one digit
in the exponent is present in both C99 and POSIX.

diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3
index 18000bc70..d3510f7df 100644
--- a/man3/printf.3
+++ b/man3/printf.3
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ conversion, the
 .I double
 argument is converted to hexadecimal notation (using the letters abcdef)
 in the style
-.RB [\-] 0x h \&. hhhh p \(+-;
+.RB [\-] 0x h \&. hhhh p \(+-d;
 for
 .B A
 conversion the prefix
@@ -746,6 +746,8 @@ and otherwise is sufficiently large to distinguish values of type
 .IR double .
 The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for nonnormalized
 numbers, and nonzero but otherwise unspecified for normalized numbers.
+The exponent always contains at least one
+digit; if the value is zero, the exponent is 0.
 .TP
 .B c
 If no


             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-07  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-07  8:30 Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2020-08-23 18:03 ` [patch] printf.3: Fix description of %a hexfloat output Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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