Re: %s format question in $display

From: Steven Sharp (sharp@cadence.com)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 15:25:20 PST

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    >As a user, I have taken the "...and leading zeros are never printed" to mean
    >that the string is not preceeded by ascii "0" character(s); but the size of
    >displayed data still reflects the presence or absence of the 0 in the format
    >string (%s vs. %0s).

    That is possible too. There's no way to tell what was intended originally,
    after so many years.

    I think most people would agree what the desired behavior is, and that
    the existing text does not describe it clearly.

    Steven Sharp
    sharp@cadence.com

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