karl@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS (Karl Danz) (12/09/84)
[] Just for grins I tried applying Patrick Powell's mods to doprnt.s -- I think he runs 4.1BSD, because his `ed' script made a real mess of our 4.2BSD doprnt.s. Fortunately I heeded his advise: > COPY the ORGINAL doprnt.s before you do the ed, it gets trompped on. In any event, the only problem we have ever had with doprnt was its inability to handle the "%X" format specifier. An obscure feature to be sure, but when a one line change gets me what I want, I'll do it instead of always running my output through `tr' to get capital letters. Actually, the 4.2BSD manual page for printf(3s) never really gets around to mentioning that capitalizing "x", "e", and "g" conversion characters has the effect of capitalizing all the letters in the resulting output. But the code is clearly set up to do so, and in fact already did so in the case of "e" and "g". Further supporting evidence came from the fact that the System V manual page is very explicit about all of this. (Yes Doug, I know that's almost always true when comparing 4.2 manual pages to System V manual pages!) --------------------------------------------------- RCS file: RCS/doprnt.s,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -r1.1 doprnt.s 206c206 < .word hex-L5 # X --- > .word capital-L5 # X --------------------------------------------------- Karl Danz Cygnet Systems ...!hplabs!cygnet!karl
rajiv@amdcad.UUCP (Rajiv Mody) (12/12/84)
> [] > Just for grins I tried applying Patrick Powell's mods to doprnt.s -- > I think he runs 4.1BSD, because his `ed' script made a real mess of > our 4.2BSD doprnt.s. Fortunately I heeded his advise: > > > COPY the ORGINAL doprnt.s before you do the ed, it gets trompped on. > > In any event, the only problem we have ever had with doprnt was its > inability to handle the "%X" format specifier. An obscure feature to > be sure, but when a one line change gets me what I want, I'll do it > instead of always running my output through `tr' to get capital letters. > > Actually, the 4.2BSD manual page for printf(3s) never really gets around > to mentioning that capitalizing "x", "e", and "g" conversion characters > has the effect of capitalizing all the letters in the resulting output. > But the code is clearly set up to do so, and in fact already did so in > the case of "e" and "g". Further supporting evidence came from the fact > that the System V manual page is very explicit about all of this. > > (Yes Doug, I know that's almost always true when comparing 4.2 manual > pages to System V manual pages!) > > --------------------------------------------------- > RCS file: RCS/doprnt.s,v > retrieving revision 1.1 > diff -r1.1 doprnt.s > 206c206 > < .word hex-L5 # X > --- > > .word capital-L5 # X > --------------------------------------------------- > > Karl Danz > Cygnet Systems > ...!hplabs!cygnet!karl