src/usr.bin/printf, branch release/9.0.0

printf(1): Document that %c and precision for %b/%s use bytes, not chars.

2011-05-28T14:32:47Z

This means these features do not work as expected with multibyte characters. This perhaps less than ideal behaviour matches printf(3) and is specified by POSIX.

printf: Allow multibyte characters for ' form, avoid negative codes.

2011-05-28T11:37:47Z

Examples: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 printf '%d\n' $(printf \'\\303\\244) LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1 printf '%d\n' $(printf \'\\344) Both of these should print 228. Like some other shells, incomplete or invalid multibyte characters yield the value of the first byte without a warning. Note that there is no general way to go back from the character code to the character.

printf(1): Move non-bugs from the BUGS section to a new section CAVEATS.

2011-04-25T19:15:58Z

printf(1): Mention effect of '#' modifier on other conversions.

2011-04-25T12:36:29Z

printf: Note that this is used both as a normal program and a shell builtin.

2011-03-01T21:47:06Z

printf: Do not use sh memory functions in sh builtin.

2010-12-29T21:38:00Z

These functions throw exceptions if they fail, possibly causing memory leaks. The normal out-of-memory handling suffices. The INTOFF around almost all of printf prevents memory leaks due to SIGINT.

sh: Make warnings in the printf builtin non-fatal, like in the program.

2010-12-20T23:06:57Z

The #define for warnx now behaves much like the libc function (except that it uses sh command name and output). Also, it now uses C99 __VA_ARGS__ so there is no need for three different macros for 0, 1 or 2 parameters.

Revert r216423 per request from Jilles.

2010-12-14T20:35:08Z

The new behavior prevents us from being able to bail out explicitly on unknown options that we have not implemented. BASH for instance have introduced a '-v' for printf(1) builtin and it seems to be bad to pretend that we supported it and have a script break silently.

When printf is being used as a sh(1) builtin, it can not call

2010-12-14T18:23:15Z

exit(3) as pointed out by jilles@ so revert to using return(), also change the return value back to 1 as requested by bde@. This is logically a revert of revision 216422.

We work on ctype's and not only on numbers so set LC_ALL instead of

2010-12-14T01:28:33Z

LC_NUMERIC. PR: bin/152934 Submitted by: Pedro F. Giffuni Obtained from: Illumos