%<.prec>d formatting

[John H. DuBois III]

gawk-printf's memory use seems to go exponential with large values of
.precision in the %d formatter.

Observed in gawk 3.1.5 under OpenServer and 3.1.4 under Linux, both on x86
platforms.

$ gawk 'BEGIN {printf "%.48d\n",1}'
gawk: fatal: format_tree: obuf: can't allocate 1073741824 bytes of memory (Not
enough space)

$ gawk 'BEGIN {printf "%.51d\n",1}'
gawk: fatal error: internal error
Abort

        John
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