[ruby-core:66046] [ruby-trunk - Bug #10454] %i doesn't have any special behavior in rb_sprintf et al.

Issue #10454 has been updated by Max Anselm.


Ah, I see now. I needed to use `%li`. It seems like README.EXT should mention `PRIsVALUE` instead of `%i`.

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Bug #10454: %i doesn't have any special behavior in rb_sprintf et al.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10454#change-49767

* Author: Max Anselm
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Zachary Scott
* Category: doc
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.1.4p265 (2014-10-27 revision 48166) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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README.EXT claims:

> In the format string, `%i` is used for `Object#to_s` (or `Object#inspect` if ‘+’ flag is set) output (and related argument must be a VALUE).

But if you look at the code, this isn't true. %d and %i are handled the same in `BSD_vfprintf` (which is where all the printf functions end up). Has this ever been the case? I went back to when this documentation was added and it still looks like they're handled the same.



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