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The following reply was made to PR bin/158846; it has been noted by GNATS.

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Subject: Re: bin/158846: commit references a PR
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:24:35 +0000 (UTC)

 Author: jilles
 Date: Sun Jul 24 17:24:26 2011
 New Revision: 224289
 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224289
 
 Log:
   MFC r212374,r221026: printf(1): Document need for "--" before format strings
   starting with "-".
   
   Also move the remark that hexadecimal escapes are not provided to the new
   CAVEATS section.
   
   PR:		158846
 
 Modified:
   stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
 Directory Properties:
   stable/8/usr.bin/printf/   (props changed)
 
 Modified: stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
 ==============================================================================
 --- stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1	Sun Jul 24 11:56:39 2011	(r224288)
 +++ stable/8/usr.bin/printf/printf.1	Sun Jul 24 17:24:26 2011	(r224289)
 @@ -332,6 +332,16 @@ 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
 @@ -343,9 +353,6 @@ 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
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