On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> In 107880a I removed our use of setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") because of a
>> bug in the GNU C Library [1]
>
> Future readers might benefit from a reminder that it is vsnprintf that
> is broken.
>
> Aside, not about this patch: glibc printf can be very convenient for
> translators, because of format strings like "%4$s".  Do other common
> platforms like FreeBSD and Mingw have something similar?

Speaking for FreeBSD:

% svn log -r21674 printf.3 
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r21674 | jkh | 1997-01-14 08:31:39 +0100 (wto) | 8 linii

The following patch to lib/libc/stdio implements positional arguments in
a manner consistent with other implementations.  Its done in a way that
adds only a tiny amount of overhead when positional arguments are not used.
I also have a test program to go with this, but don't know where it belongs
in the tree.

Submitted-By: Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.ORG>

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Solaris 9 has it, too.

--Marcin