[m-dev.] string_format_tests

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Nov-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> fjh wrote:
> > On 21-Nov-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > > Do you have a copy of the ANSI standard where you can check which flags are
> > > valid with which type specifiers?
> >
> > Sure.
> >
> > # is valid for o, x, X, e, E, f, g, G, undefined behaviour for others.
> >
> > 0 is valid for d, i, o, u, x, X, e, E, f, g, and G, undefined behaviour
> >   for others.
> >
> > - is valid for all specifiers
> >
> > + is defined for "signed conversions", which I guess is d, i, e, E, f, F,
> g.
> >   Valid (but has no effect) for others.
>
> Thanks, then one of the failures on taifun is definitely due to a bug in the
> C library.  Would you prefer the test case to be disabled on taifun or
> should I add the buggy expected output as valid output.

The former.

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