Re: printf produces no output for %f directive

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> On a glibc 2.3.6 system, 'printf' produces no output for a %f directive in
> some cases:
>
> $ /packages/gnu/bin/printf --version
> printf (GNU coreutils) 6.9
> $ /packages/gnu/bin/printf %.100000000f 17
> <no output>
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> I would have expected an error message and an exit status of 1.
>
> Likewise for %e instead of %f.
>
> 100000000 is far less than INT_MAX.

Thanks for the report.
On both fedora rawhide- and debian-unstable-based systems,
with coreutils-6.9 and the latest sources, I get this:

  $ ./printf %.100000000f 17 |wc -c
  100000003

maybe your libc is responsible?