Hello Vincent, On 8/20/19 3:35 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > This requirement on the first digit with the %e format comes from > the ISO C standard. It ensures that all the digits in the output are > significant and forbids output with a precision less than requested. Thanks. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/printf.3 | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 > index fb40b7077..66ad6af02 100644 > --- a/man3/printf.3 > +++ b/man3/printf.3 > @@ -658,7 +658,8 @@ The > .I double > argument is rounded and converted in the style > .RB [\-]d \&. ddd e \(+-dd > -where there is one digit before the decimal-point character and the number > +where there is one digit (which is nonzero if the argument is nonzero) > +before the decimal-point character and the number > of digits after it is equal to the precision; if the precision is missing, > it is taken as 6; if the precision is zero, no decimal-point character > appears. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
