[Laszlo-dev] Re: printf question

[P T Withington]

I confess I was referring to the Darwin man page when I implemented  
Debug.format.  Personally, I do not think it is important to go into  
more detail.  But surely there must be a POSIX standard that you  
should be referring to, if you refer to anything.  (And then I should  
check that what I implemented conforms to that POSIX spec.

On 24 Jan 2006, at 09:21, John Sundman wrote:

> The Dguide chapter on debugging merely says "The standard printf  
> conversions are accepted, with the exception of a, n, and p" , but  
> it does not say what these standard conversions are.
>
> You can find them on the net, for example, here:
>
> http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdio/printf.html
>
> Questions:
>
> a) These are all derived from C, n'est-ce pas?
>
> b) Is there a public domain description of these conversions  
> anywhere?   I would like to include a table in the dguide but don't  
> want to violate anybody's copyright -- and it certainly would be  
> easier to cut-n-paste a table than to make up a new one.
>
> c) If there is no public domain description, is there a preferred  
> place I should link to?  I just used the one above because it came  
> out tops from a google search.
>
> Thanks
>
> jrs
>