@node sprintf
@section @code{sprintf}
@findex sprintf

POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/sprintf.html}

Gnulib module: sprintf-posix

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function does not support size specifiers as in C99 (@code{hh}, @code{ll},
@code{j}, @code{t}, @code{z}) on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
printf of @samp{long double} numbers is unsupported on some platforms:
mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an
incorrect result on some platforms:
AIX 5.2, Solaris 11.4, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function does not support the @samp{a} and @samp{A} directives on some
platforms:
glibc-2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function does not support the @samp{b} directive, required by ISO C23,
on some platforms:
glibc 2.34, musl libc, macOS 12.5, FreeBSD 13.1, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 7.2,
AIX 7.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 2.9.0, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function does not support the @samp{F} directive on some platforms:
NetBSD 3.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9,
Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function does not support the @samp{n} directive on some platforms:
glibc when used with @code{_FORTIFY_SOURCE >= 2} (set by default on Ubuntu),
macOS 11.1, MSVC 14.
@item
This function does not support the @samp{ls} directive on some platforms:
OpenBSD 4.0, IRIX 6.5, Cygwin 1.5.x, Haiku.
@item
This function does not support precisions in the @samp{ls} directive correctly
on some platforms:
Solaris 11.4.
@item
This function does not support format directives that access arguments in an
arbitrary order, such as @code{"%2$s"}, on some platforms:
NetBSD 3.0, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function doesn't support the @code{'} flag on some platforms:
NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function does not round the argument of the @samp{a} directive correctly
on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.12, FreeBSD 13.0.
@item
printf @code{"%010f"} of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded
with zeroes, or wrong capitalization) on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC/clang.
@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, Solaris 10/x86, mingw, MSVC/clang.
@item
This function mishandles large floating point precisions
(for example, formatting 1.0 with @samp{"%.511f"})
on some platforms:
Solaris 10.
@item
This function produces wrong output for the @samp{lc} directive with a NUL
wide character argument on some platforms:
glibc 2.35, FreeBSD 13.1, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 7.2, macOS 12.5, AIX 7.2, Solaris 11.4, and others.
@item
This function can crash in out-of-memory conditions on some platforms:
FreeBSD 13.0, NetBSD 5.0.
@item
The compiler warns that this function is deprecated:
macOS 13.0.
@end itemize

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.
@end itemize
