doc: document Solaris printf bug with large float precisions

[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / vprintf.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi b/doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi
index ac53388..213461c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi
@@ -69,4 +69,9 @@ mingw.
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+This function mishandles large floating point precisions
+(for example, formatting 1.0 with @samp{"%.511f"})
+on some platforms:
+Solaris 10.
 @end itemize