https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55371 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED CC| |mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx Resolution|--- |CODE_FIX --- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to Filipus Klutiero from comment #0) > 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. Yes, but that's explained no less than twice further down the page. > It's also unclear in that sentence what "next argument" refers to. It seems clear enough to me. But, if you have a better proposal let me know. > And "*" > hasn't been introduced at that point, so that part is hard to follow ("*" is > defined in section The precision). For this piece, I changed the text to: By default, the arguments are used in the order given, where each '*' (see Field width and Pre‐ cision below) and each conversion specifier asks for the next argument -- 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
