9.188 dprintf
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dprintf.html
Gnulib module: dprintf or dprintf-posix
Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module dprintf
or dprintf-posix
:
- This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module dprintf-posix
:
- This function does not support the ‘a’ and ‘A’ directives on some
platforms:
glibc-2.3.6.
- This function does not support precisions larger than 512 or 1024 in integer,
floating-point and pointer output on some platforms:
AIX 7.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
- Formatting noncanonical ‘long double’ numbers produces
nonmeaningful results on some platforms:
glibc and others, on x86, x86_64, IA-64 CPUs.
- When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
NetBSD 5.1.
- On some platforms, this function does not set
errno
or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.