Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:49:21 +0200
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> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:30:08 +0100 (MET)
> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> 
> > > DJ, these format modifiers (-, _, 0, and ^) don't exist in the C
> > > standard, AFAICS, and aren't documented in libc.info.  Is this for
> > > compatibility with some other implementation?  If so, which one?
> > 
> > I don't know.  I didn't write that part.
> 
> I didn't, either, but a quick lookup in the man pages of a Digital Unix
> (now a.k.a. Tru64) box reveals at least '-' and '0', too. These may be
> standardized by the X/Open XPG4 Unix spec (the predecessor of Unix98 and 
> the 'Single Unix Specification).

I cannot find the patches for this in the djgpp-workers archives ("cvs
annotate" says DJ commited that, but that's probably goes back to when
DJ was the only one to do that).  But from other discussions I
understand that ^ is a GNU glibc extension.