bug in printf

[Oliver Kiddle]

The following result in seg faults:
        /usr/bin/printf "%*s\n" -1 hello
        /usr/bin/printf "%.*g\n" -1 .1

The negative width should, imply the `-' flag so, for example:
$ printf '%*sx\n' -3 x
x  x

I would guess that you are calling printf(3) without the extra parameter
for the widths in these cases because negative values of a
width/precision internal variable are used to determine when a
width/precision has not been specified.

Bash's printf builtin has a similar problem with zero instead of
negative widths. I've sent them a separate report.

Please Cc me in any replies as I don't subscribe to this list.

Oliver Kiddle

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