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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-26 09:07:09 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-26 09:20:50 +1300 |
| commit | 74b9e29f9245e11f6cb43ba57c86b5f8fec9488f (patch) | |
| tree | 7435ca073a6bc32cc11e3e2d7ad29498813166e5 /man3 | |
| parent | 2e621720d00a9344639d8935357cafb9f14dc781 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-74b9e29f9245e11f6cb43ba57c86b5f8fec9488f.tar.gz | |
printf.3: Document 'q' length modifier
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index fb3b27fc0b..8f58a769b9 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -509,6 +509,12 @@ conversion corresponds to a pointer to a .I long long int argument. .TP +.B q +A synonym for +.BR ll . +This is a nonstandard extension, derived from BSD; +avoid its use in new code. +.TP .B L A following .BR a , @@ -524,10 +530,6 @@ conversion corresponds to a .I long double argument. (C99 allows %LF, but SUSv2 does not.) -.\" .TP -.\" .B q -.\" ("quad". 4.4BSD and Linux libc5 only. -.\" Don't use.) This is a synonym for .BR ll . .TP @@ -566,7 +568,8 @@ conversion corresponds to a pointer to a .I ptrdiff_t argument. .PP -SUSv3 specifies all of the above. +SUSv3 specifies all of the above, +except for those modifiers explicitly noted as being nonstandard extensions. SUSv2 specified only the length modifiers .B h (in |