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doc: document Solaris printf bug with large float precisions
* doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi (dprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi (fprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/printf.texi (printf):
* doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi (snprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi (sprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi (vdprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi (vfprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi (vprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi (vsnprintf):
* doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi (vsprintf):
Mention that these functions mishandle large floating point
precisions on Solaris 10. The same bug is also present in Solaris
8, and I assume earlier. This causes "cd gnulib-tests; make
check" to fail on Solaris 8 (and I assume, later) when building
the latest coreutils, in test-vasprintf-posix's call to
my_asprintf (&result, "%.4000f %d", 1.0, 99). I have not checked
the wide flavors (e.g., wprintf) so this patch just updates the
documentation for the narrow ones.
author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> |
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date | Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:13:59 -0800 |
parents | a1b25ebccaf2 |
children | b9abed08d82e |
files | ChangeLog doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/printf.texi doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi |
diffstat | 11 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,25 @@ 2010-12-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + doc: document Solaris printf bug with large float precisions + * doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi (dprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi (fprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/printf.texi (printf): + * doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi (snprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi (sprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi (vdprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi (vfprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi (vprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi (vsnprintf): + * doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi (vsprintf): + Mention that these functions mishandle large floating point + precisions on Solaris 10. The same bug is also present in Solaris + 8, and I assume earlier. This causes "cd gnulib-tests; make + check" to fail on Solaris 8 (and I assume, later) when building + the latest coreutils, in test-vasprintf-posix's call to + my_asprintf (&result, "%.4000f %d", 1.0, 99). I have not checked + the wide flavors (e.g., wprintf) so this patch just updates the + documentation for the narrow ones. + test-posixtm.c: add two tests * tests/test-posixtm.c: Add two tests, to highlight the bug in Solaris 10 (and earlier) localtime. Gnulib doesn't work
--- a/doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi @@ -24,4 +24,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi @@ -69,4 +69,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/printf.texi @@ -69,4 +69,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi @@ -89,4 +89,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi @@ -61,4 +61,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi @@ -42,4 +42,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi @@ -69,4 +69,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi @@ -69,4 +69,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi @@ -89,4 +89,9 @@ 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
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi @@ -61,4 +61,9 @@ 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