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From: russb@alexa.JPL.NASA.GOV (Russ Brill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: form() is broken
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Date: 10 May 91 20:09:11 GMT
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>The form function in C++, i.e.:
>
>   cout << form(<control-string>,<args>) ;
>
>seems to be broken.  Let p be a pointer to a vector of floats.
>
>  cout << p[1];    // this works
>
>   cout << form("%f",p[1]) ;   // IOT Trap (Core dumped)
>

We've also had problems with form().  Specifically, something like

	form("%-20.10s","abc")

compiles just fine, but it generates 20 blanks.  This is on Sun's
cfront 2.0 on a Sparc (works just fine on our Sun 3's).