The description of hexadecimal floating-point output is missing a character describing the exponent. The guarantee of at least one digit in the exponent is present in both C99 and POSIX. diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index 18000bc70..d3510f7df 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ conversion, the .I double argument is converted to hexadecimal notation (using the letters abcdef) in the style -.RB [\-] 0x h \&. hhhh p \(+-; +.RB [\-] 0x h \&. hhhh p \(+-d; for .B A conversion the prefix @@ -746,6 +746,8 @@ and otherwise is sufficiently large to distinguish values of type .IR double . The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for nonnormalized numbers, and nonzero but otherwise unspecified for normalized numbers. +The exponent always contains at least one +digit; if the value is zero, the exponent is 0. .TP .B c If no
