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• @node vasprintf
  @subsection @code{vasprintf}
  @findex vasprintf
  
  POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/vasprintf.html}
  
  Documentation:
  @itemize
  @item
  @ifinfo
  @ref{Variable Arguments Output,,Variable Arguments Output Functions,libc},
  @end ifinfo
  @ifnotinfo
  @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Variable-Arguments-Output.html},
  @end ifnotinfo
  @item
  @uref{https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/vasprintf.3.html,,man vasprintf}.
  @end itemize
  
  Gnulib module: vasprintf or vasprintf-posix or vasprintf-gnu
  @mindex vasprintf
  @mindex vasprintf-posix
  @mindex vasprintf-gnu
  
  Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{vasprintf} or @code{vasprintf-posix} or @code{vasprintf-gnu}:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function is missing on some platforms:
  AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, Solaris 10, mingw, MSVC 14.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{vasprintf-posix} or @code{vasprintf-gnu}:
  @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:
  Cygwin 1.5.24.
  @item
  This function does not support size specifiers as in C23 (@code{w8},
  @code{w16}, @code{w32}, @code{w64}, @code{wf8}, @code{wf16}, @code{wf32},
  @code{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.
  @item
  printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an
  incorrect result on some platforms:
  AIX 7.3, Solaris 11.4.
  @item
  This function does not support the @samp{a} and @samp{A} directives on some
  platforms:
  FreeBSD 5.2.1, OpenBSD 4.0, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 1.5.x.
  @item
  This function does not support the @samp{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.
  @item
  This function does not support the @samp{F} directive on some platforms:
  NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.x.
  @item
  This function does not support the @samp{ls} directive on some platforms:
  OpenBSD 4.0, 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.
  @item
  This function doesn't support the @code{'} flag on some platforms:
  NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24.
  @item
  This function does not round the argument of the @samp{a} directive correctly
  on some platforms:
  macOS 14, FreeBSD 14.0, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.5, AIX 7.3, Solaris 11.4.
  @item
  printf @code{"%010f"} of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded
  with zeroes) on some platforms:
  Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 7.3, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 1.5.x.
  @item
  printf @code{"%#.0x"} or @code{"%#.0X"} with a zero argument yields an
  incorrect result (non-empty) on some platforms:
  Mac OS X 10.6.
  @item
  This function produces wrong output for the @samp{lc} directive with a NUL
  wide character argument on some platforms:
  musl libc 1.2.4.
  @item
  This function can crash in out-of-memory conditions on some platforms:
  FreeBSD 14.0, NetBSD 5.0.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{vasprintf-gnu}:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function does not support the @samp{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.
  @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.
  @end itemize
  

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