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Subject: [Bug 55371] printf: a conversion specifier doesn't necessarily ask
for an argument
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 18:01:47 +0000
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55371
Michael Kerrisk changed:
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Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |WILL_NOT_FIX
--- Comment #7 from Michael Kerrisk ---
So, I've stepped back from this a little, to think about it more. I don't agree
with the characterization of this problem as an error. The sentence you refer
to is a generalization. The exceptions are clarified later. I don't think it
help comprehensibility, nor readability, to clutter the initial discussion with
a note that there are some exceptions. By the time folk get to the point in the
page where %% is discussed, it's also noted as an exception to the general
rule; problem solved. printf() is a complex API. It's reasonable to expect that
people should read the documentation with some care.
Summary: there's nothing to fix here, so I'm not fixing it.
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