Re: Bugs in printf/sprintf formatted output

[arnold]

> > Have you had a chance to get to this? I'd like to have it
> > wrapped up so that I can merge the branch.
>
>  Yes, I have started, but it seems to trigger issues here, and I yet need 
> to figure out whether it's something on my side or a missed case in gawk.  
> I do hope to get this sorted tomorrow-ish.  I'll keep you posted.

Thanks.

>  FYI I have submitted the glibc side of this effort now: 
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-August/158902.html>.

Wow. Lots of work!

I see that you found differences in %a between gawk and GLIBC. There too,
gawk just calls into the C library (or MPFR).  If it's an issue of
the default precision or something, perhaps I can make a change, but
you'll need to tell me what's going on.

> BTW POSIX.1-2024 (Issue 8) has been published now with no `b' or `B' 
> conversions mentioned, so my understanding is there's no need for gawk to 
> implement them at this time unless as a GNU extension.

Those are in C23. But I am in no rush to implement them.

Thanks,

Arnold