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Subject: [Bug 55371] New: printf: a conversion specifier doesn't necessarily
ask for an argument
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:48:57 +0000 (UTC)
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55371
Summary: printf: a conversion specifier doesn't necessarily ask
for an argument
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/vQLgFONoPN62D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
ReportedBy: chealer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Regression: No
The format string of printf is quite complicated, and while its documentation
is extensive, it has a bit too many errors and needs some cleanup for
comprehensibility.
In particular, man 3 printf contains:
By default, the arguments are used in the order given, where each '*' and each
conversion specifier asks for the next argument (and it is an error if
insufficiently many arguments are given).
This is inexact, as "%" is defined as a conversion specifier and doesn't
consume any argument.
It's also unclear in that sentence what "next argument" refers to. And "*"
hasn't been introduced at that point, so that part is hard to follow ("*" is
defined in section The precision).
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