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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:34:42 -0400
To: Pavol Juhas <juhas AT seas DOT upenn DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: bug in /usr/bin/printf "%4.0f\n" 0.1
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At 07:25 PM 5/22/2002, Pavol Juhas wrote:
>Hi,
>I am using recent Cygwin on WindowsXP professional.
>I have found this bug in when using /usr/bin/printf:
>If printf "%4.0f" rounds its argument to 0, it only prints 3
>characters instead of 4, e.g.:
>
>$ printf "%4.0f\n%4.0f\n" 0 0.1
>    0
>   0
>
>Can you also see this?


Yes, I can reproduce this with Cygwin DLL 1.3.10.


>Originally, I have found this problem in gawk, but /usr/bin/printf behaves
>in the same way.  I guess the problem is somewhere in the runtime libraries.


Probably.



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