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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/printf.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index 59cdc7d887..6876a4646d 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Instead of a decimal digit string one may write `*' or `*m$' is given in the next argument, or in the m-th argument, respectively, which must be of type .IR int . -A negative field width is taken as a `-' flag followed by a +A negative field width is taken as a `\-' flag followed by a positive field width. In no case does a non-existent or small field width cause truncation of a field; if the result of a conversion is wider than the field width, the @@ -562,10 +562,10 @@ If a decimal point appears, at least one digit appears before it. (The SUSv2 does not know about .B F and says that character string representations for infinity and NaN -may be made available. The C99 standard specifies `[-]inf' or `[-]infinity' +may be made available. The C99 standard specifies `[\-]inf' or `[\-]infinity' for infinity, and a string starting with `nan' for NaN, in the case of .B f -conversion, and `[-]INF' or `[-]INFINITY' or `NAN*' in the case of +conversion, and `[\-]INF' or `[\-]INFINITY' or `NAN*' in the case of .B F conversion.) .TP @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ conversion, the .I double argument is converted to hexadecimal notation (using the letters abcdef) in the style -.BR "" [-] 0x h \&. hhhh p \\*(Pmd; +.BR "" [\-] 0x h \&. hhhh p \\*(Pmd; for .B A conversion the prefix |