On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 12:23:05AM GMT, Ken Pizzini wrote: > The term "decimal point" does not technically apply when using bases > other than 10; the more generic term is "radix point". Update the > description of the a/A conversion specifier (i.e., for hexadecimal > floating point output) in printf(3) to use this terminology. > > I do note that POSIX.1-2024 [1] does use the term "decimal-point > character" here, but I still maintain that using "radix point" is a > better term for that object in the %a description. (Confusingly, POSIX > does refer to "radix character" in the descriptions of %f and %e, where > reference to "decimal" instead of "radix" would actually make sense.) > > [1] <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/printf.html> > > Signed-off-by: Ken Pizzini <ken@xxxxxxx> Hi Ken, I've applied this patch. Thanks! <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=fa80aedf4aed0b92ba3b329f0a003922eb960337> Have a lovely day! Alex > --- > man/man3/printf.3 | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man/man3/printf.3 b/man/man3/printf.3 > index 3bc731f6e..7a96ec9c7 100644 > --- a/man/man3/printf.3 > +++ b/man/man3/printf.3 > @@ -759,13 +759,13 @@ .SS Conversion specifiers > the letters ABCDEF, and the exponent separator > .B P > is used. > -There is one hexadecimal digit before the decimal point, > +There is one hexadecimal digit before the radix point, > and the number of digits after it is equal to the precision. > The default precision suffices for an exact representation of the value > if an exact representation in base 2 exists > and otherwise is sufficiently large to distinguish values of type > .IR double . > -The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for nonnormalized > +The digit before the radix 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. > -- > 2.47.0 > -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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