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-rw-r--r--coreutils/printf.c21
-rwxr-xr-xtestsuite/printf.tests5
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/printf.c b/coreutils/printf.c
index ca035cc..7f6235a 100644
--- a/coreutils/printf.c
+++ b/coreutils/printf.c
@@ -63,11 +63,8 @@ typedef void FAST_FUNC (*converter)(const char *arg, void *result);
static int multiconvert(const char *arg, void *result, converter convert)
{
- char s[sizeof(int)*3 + 2];
-
if (*arg == '"' || *arg == '\'') {
- sprintf(s, "%d", (unsigned char)arg[1]);
- arg = s;
+ arg = utoa((unsigned char)arg[1]);
}
errno = 0;
convert(arg, result);
@@ -289,10 +286,22 @@ static char **print_formatted(char *f, char **argv)
}
}
}
+ /* Remove size modifiers - "%Ld" would try to printf
+ * long long, we pass long, and it spews garbage */
if ((*f | 0x20) == 'l' || *f == 'h' || *f == 'z') {
- ++f;
- ++direc_length;
+ strcpy(f, f + 1);
}
+//FIXME: actually, the same happens with bare "%d":
+//it printfs an int, but we pass long!
+//What saves us is that on most arches stack slot
+//is pointer-sized -> long-sized -> ints are promoted to longs
+// for variadic functions -> printf("%d", int_v) is in reality
+// indistinqushable from printf("%d", long_v) ->
+// since printf("%d", int_v) works, printf("%d", long_v) has to work.
+//But "clean" solution would be to add "l" to d,i,o,x,X.
+//Probably makes sense to go all the way to "ll" then.
+//Coreutils support long long-sized arguments.
+
/* needed - try "printf %" without it */
if (!strchr("diouxXfeEgGcs", *f)) {
bb_error_msg("%s: invalid format", direc_start);
diff --git a/testsuite/printf.tests b/testsuite/printf.tests
index a5c71ec..f9d1dec 100755
--- a/testsuite/printf.tests
+++ b/testsuite/printf.tests
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ testing "printf understands %ld" \
"-5\n""0\n" \
"" ""
+testing "printf understands %Ld" \
+ "${bb}printf '%Ld\n' -5 2>&1; echo \$?" \
+ "-5\n""0\n" \
+ "" ""
+
# We are "more correct" here than bash/coreutils: they happily print -2
# as if it is a huge unsigned number
testing "printf handles %u -N" \