svn commit: r221026 - head/usr.bin/printf

Jilles Tjoelker jilles at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 25 19:15:58 UTC 2011


Author: jilles
Date: Mon Apr 25 19:15:58 2011
New Revision: 221026
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221026

Log:
  printf(1): Move non-bugs from the BUGS section to a new section CAVEATS.

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1	Mon Apr 25 18:15:45 2011	(r221025)
+++ head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1	Mon Apr 25 19:15:58 2011	(r221026)
@@ -337,6 +337,16 @@ command appeared in
 It is modeled
 after the standard library function,
 .Xr printf 3 .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+.Tn ANSI
+hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided.
+.Pp
+Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes
+.Nm
+to interpret the dash as a program argument.
+.Nm --
+must be used before 
+.Ar format .
 .Sh BUGS
 Since the floating point numbers are translated from
 .Tn ASCII
@@ -348,9 +358,6 @@ The
 .Cm L
 modifier may produce additional precision, depending on the hardware platform.)
 .Pp
-.Tn ANSI
-hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided.
-.Pp
 The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator.
 When present in the argument for the
 .Cm b
@@ -360,10 +367,3 @@ Multibyte characters are not recognized 
 a problem if
 .Ql %
 can appear inside a multibyte character).
-.Pp
-Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes
-.Nm
-to interpet the dash as a program argument.
-.Nm --
-must be used before 
-.Ar format .


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