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Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index f5e96d3e77..61f8e4d59b 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" 2000-07-26 jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk - three small fixes .\" 2000-10-16 jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk - more fixes .\" -.TH PRINTF 3 2013-03-05 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH PRINTF 3 2013-09-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf \- formatted output conversion @@ -409,8 +409,9 @@ 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 . -If the precision is given as just \(aq.\(aq, or the precision is negative, -the precision is taken to be zero. +If the precision is given as just \(aq.\(aq, the precision is taken to +be zero. A negative precision is taken as if the precision were +omitted. This gives the minimum number of digits to appear for .BR d , .BR i , |