I wrote:
>Bruce Momjian said:
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>>OK, a few things. First, Tom has fixed snprintf.c so it should
>>properly process positional parameters now. Would you first test the
>>libintl version of *printf to see if it can process %$ parameters
>>(probably by hacking up any language file and testing the printing),
>>and then try your patch below to see if it is properly reorders the
>>arguments. If libintl does not reorder properly, but our snprintf.c
>>does, would you please generate an appliable patch we can put into
>>8.1.X? Thanks.
>>
>>I know I am asking a lot, but you are "the man" on this one. :-)
>>
>>
>>
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>Since the effect of the configure change I am proposing to reverse was to
>force use of the *printf in libintl, don't we already know the answer to
>your first question from Nicolai's report?
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However, a very simple test shows that the libintl printf does indeed do
%m$ processing:
$ cat testpf.c
#include <libintl.h>
main()
{ printf("%2$s %1$s\n","arg1","arg2");
}
$ gcc -o testpf testpf.c -lintl
$ ./testpf.exe
arg2 arg1
$
So the next question is why isn't it working in the build.
cheers
andrew