Re: [dev] [sbase] printf(1)

From: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:07:14 +0000

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:49:03PM +0000, sin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:18:34PM +0000, Rob wrote:
> > printf '%f\n' 2
> >
> > If you "throw it into the standard library's printf", even forgetting
> > about how we do that, you'd still interpret 2 as an int, when printf
> > expects a float. And that's only the beginning, what about %n, or not
> > passing enough arguments?
>
> Exactly.
>
> BTW, I just noticed this thread as the messages had been bouncing for some time
> (was migrating my mail setup).

is there any update on this? Sorry I do not have the original message
so I can't respond there.

bye,
sin
Received on Fri Jan 24 2014 - 18:07:14 CET