https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55371 Summary: printf: a conversion specifier doesn't necessarily ask for an argument Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: P1 Component: man-pages AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: chealer@xxxxxxxxx Regression: No The format string of printf is quite complicated, and while its documentation is extensive, it has a bit too many errors and needs some cleanup for comprehensibility. In particular, man 3 printf contains: By default, the arguments are used in the order given, where each '*' and each conversion specifier asks for the next argument (and it is an error if insufficiently many arguments are given). This is inexact, as "%" is defined as a conversion specifier and doesn't consume any argument. It's also unclear in that sentence what "next argument" refers to. And "*" hasn't been introduced at that point, so that part is hard to follow ("*" is defined in section The precision). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
