@node dprintf
@section @code{dprintf}
@findex dprintf

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dprintf.html}

Gnulib module: dprintf or dprintf-posix

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{dprintf} or @code{dprintf-posix}:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
@end itemize

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{dprintf-posix}:
@itemize
@item
printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an
incorrect result on some platforms:
Solaris 11.4.
@item
This function does not support the @samp{a} and @samp{A} directives on some
platforms:
glibc-2.3.6.
@item
printf @code{"%010f"} of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded
with zeroes, or wrong capitalization) on some platforms:
Solaris 11.4.
@item
This function does not support precisions larger than 512 or 1024 in integer,
floating-point and pointer output on some platforms:
AIX 7.1.
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Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
The @code{%m} directive is not portable, use @code{%s} mapped to an
argument of @code{strerror(errno)} (or a version of @code{strerror_r})
instead.
@item
Formatting noncanonical @samp{long double} numbers produces
nonmeaningful results on some platforms:
glibc and others, on x86, x86_64, IA-64 CPUs.
@item
When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
NetBSD 5.1.
@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
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