Re: built-in printf %f parameter format depend on LC_NUMERIC

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/12/19 12:46 PM, Léa Gris wrote:
> Le 09/07/2019 à 22:02, Chet Ramey écrivait :
> 
>> These are up to the system's strtol/strtod. I don't know of too many
>> strtol implementations that use the thousands separator and numeric
>> grouping.
> 
> Chet and you other Bash maintainers or contributors dudes:
> 
> I can foresee the implications and blockages even lightly considering the
> possibility to align the Bash's built-in printf behavior with the %f
> argument with the sibling GNU Coreutils printf implementation.

I don't think I explained this very well. For input, the printf builtin
relies on strtod(3) to parse the string into a floating point number. For
output, it relies on printf(3) to display a floating point number as a
string. I'm not really interested in re-implementing either one if the
system libc provides one that's perfectly acceptable. On POSIX-conformant
systems, those library functions generally honor the locale's decimal_point
character as the radix character.

The `bc' you're using isn't POSIX conformant.

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