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10.1158 swprintf

POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/swprintf.html

Gnulib module: —

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.00, Cygwin 1.5.x.
• This function has a different signature on some platforms: MSVC 9.
• This function is only defined as a macro on some platforms: MSVC 14.
• This function does not support the ‘n’ directive on some platforms: glibc when used with _FORTIFY_SOURCE >= 2 (set by default on Ubuntu), macOS 14, OpenBSD, MSVC 14, Android.
• This function sometimes returns a wrong value through the ‘n’ directive on some platforms: musl libc 1.2.3.
• On Windows and 32-bit AIX platforms, wchar_t is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot accommodate all Unicode characters.
• On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
• This function produces wrong values for the ‘La’ directive on some platforms: glibc 2.15, Haiku, NetBSD 10.0.
• This function does not support size specifiers as in C23 (w8, w16, w32, w64, wf8, wf16, wf32, wf64) on some platforms: glibc 2.37, musl libc, macOS 14, FreeBSD 13.2, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.5, AIX 7.3, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 3.5.3, mingw, MSVC, Android 9.0.
• This function ignores the minimum field width in the ‘lc’ directive on some platforms: musl libc 1.2.3.
• This function is broken when it produces output that contains null wide characters on some platforms: musl libc 1.2.3, macOS 14, FreeBSD 13.1, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.2, AIX 7.2, mingw.
• This function does not support the ‘b’ directive, required by ISO C23, on some platforms: glibc 2.34, musl libc, macOS 14, FreeBSD 13.2, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.5, AIX 7.3, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 3.5.3, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 9.0.
• This function does not support the ‘B’ directive on some platforms: glibc 2.34, musl libc, macOS 14, FreeBSD 13.2, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.5, AIX 7.3, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 3.5.3, mingw, MSVC, Android 9.0.
• printf "%#.0x" or "%#.0X" with a zero argument yields an incorrect result (non-empty) on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.6.
• The %m directive is not portable, use %s mapped to an argument of strerror(errno) (or a version of strerror_r) instead.
• In the C or POSIX locales, the %c and %s conversions may fail on some platforms: glibc 2.35, musl libc 1.2.4, FreeBSD 13.2, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.2, Cygwin 2.9.0.
• The %lc directive may fail on some platforms: musl libc 1.2.4, FreeBSD 13.2, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.2.
• When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms: NetBSD 5.1.