X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fprintf.texi;h=d704ac329ef4d0752e256b016c53fb953ddba816;hb=7c193d625308bb806418c61ec9062fc22a29aeaf;hp=742c8d90d85c709ca07b3addac8244d769a0bd53;hpb=fb95d2ffdee15f80ca9613cf0f30828a1800a2ce;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi b/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi index 742c8d90d..d704ac329 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi @@ -4,44 +4,47 @@ POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/printf.html} -Gnulib module: printf-posix or stdio, sigpipe +Gnulib module: printf-posix or stdio, nonblocking, sigpipe Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{printf-posix}: @itemize @item This function does not support size specifiers as in C99 (@code{hh}, @code{ll}, @code{j}, @code{t}, @code{z}) on some platforms: -AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, BeOS. +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. @item printf of @samp{long double} numbers is unsupported on some platforms: -mingw, BeOS. +mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. @item printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an incorrect result on some platforms: -AIX 5.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw. +AIX 5.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, mingw, MSVC 9. @item This function does not support the @samp{a} and @samp{A} directives on some platforms: glibc-2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11, -IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, BeOS. +IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. @item This function does not support the @samp{F} directive on some platforms: NetBSD 3.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, -Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, BeOS. +Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. +@item +This function does not support the @samp{n} directive on some platforms: +MSVC 9. @item This function does not support the @samp{ls} directive on some platforms: OpenBSD 4.0, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, Cygwin 1.5.x, Haiku. @item This function does not support precisions in the @samp{ls} directive correctly on some platforms: -Solaris 10. +Solaris 11 2011-11. @item This function does not support format directives that access arguments in an arbitrary order, such as @code{"%2$s"}, on some platforms: -NetBSD 3.0, mingw, BeOS. +NetBSD 3.0, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. @item This function doesn't support the @code{'} flag on some platforms: -NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw. +NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9. @item This function behaves incorrectly when a @samp{-} flag and a negative width are specified together, on some platforms: @@ -49,24 +52,46 @@ HP-UX 10.20. @item printf @code{"%010f"} of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded with zeroes) on some platforms: -MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw. +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9. @item This function does not support precisions larger than 512 or 1024 in integer, floating-point and pointer output on some platforms: -Solaris 10/x86, mingw, BeOS. +AIX 7.1, Solaris 10/x86, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. +@item +This function mishandles large floating point precisions +(for example, formatting 1.0 with @samp{"%.511f"}) +on some platforms: +Solaris 10. @item This function can crash in out-of-memory conditions on some platforms: MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0. @end itemize +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{stdio} or @code{printf-posix}, together with module @code{nonblocking}: +@itemize +@item +When writing to a non-blocking pipe whose buffer is full, this function fails +with @code{errno} being set to @code{ENOSPC} instead of @code{EAGAIN} on some +platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@end itemize + Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{stdio} or @code{printf-posix}, together with module @code{sigpipe}: @itemize @item When writing to a pipe with no readers, this function fails, instead of obeying the current @code{SIGPIPE} handler, on some platforms: -mingw. +mingw, MSVC 9. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands +separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms: +NetBSD 5.1. +@item +Attempting to write to a read-only stream fails with @code{EOF} but +does not set the error flag for @code{ferror} on some platforms: +glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9. @end itemize