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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/StringObj.3 | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/StringObj.3 b/doc/StringObj.3 index 6f2abff..65216d3 100644 --- a/doc/StringObj.3 +++ b/doc/StringObj.3 @@ -320,8 +320,11 @@ sprintf(buf, format, ...); but with greater convenience and no need to determine \fBSOME_SUITABLE_LENGTH\fR. The formatting is done with the same core formatting engine used by \fBTcl_Format\fR. This means the set of -supported conversion specifiers is that of the \fBformat\fR command and -not that of the \fBsprintf\fR routine where the two sets differ. When a +supported conversion specifiers is that of the \fBformat\fR command but +the behavior is as similar as possible to \fBsprintf\fR. The "hh" and +(Microsoft-specific) "w" format specifiers are not supported. The "L" +format specifier means that an "mp_int *" argument is expected (in combination +with "d"/"i"/"u"/"o"/"x"/"X", it cannot be used for long doubles). When a conversion specifier passed to \fBTcl_ObjPrintf\fR includes a precision, the value is taken as a number of bytes, as \fBsprintf\fR does, and not as a number of characters, as \fBformat\fR does. This is done on the |