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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2008-06-11 15:02:20 -0600
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-06-13 23:00:04 +0200
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downloadcoreutils-bbbc35c9ed194b0d458f2a2827dfbceb9056ef7d.tar.xz
od: use gnulib printf replacement as necessary
* src/od.c (includes): Add xprintf.h. (PRINT_TYPE): New macro, using xprintf instead of printf. (print_s_char, print_char, print_s_short, print_short, print_int) (print_long, print_long_long, print_float, print_double) (print_long_double): Factor into PRINT_TYPE macro. (print_named_ascii, print_ascii): Use xprintf. * NEWS: Mention this as a bug fix.
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@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
md5sum now accepts the new option, --quiet, to suppress the printing of
'OK' messages. sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum accept it, too.
+** Bug fixes
+
+ od no longer suffers from platform bugs in printf(3). This is
+ probably most noticeable when using 'od -tfL' to print long doubles.
+
** Improvements
Improved support for access control lists (ACLs): On MacOS X, Solaris 7..10,