1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/editors/awk.c b/editors/awk.c
index b5774a339..c49ad6e02 100644
--- a/editors/awk.c
+++ b/editors/awk.c
@@ -2389,7 +2389,7 @@ static char *awk_printf(node *n, size_t *len)
                 while (1) {
                         if (isalpha(c))
                                 break;
-                        if (c == '*')
+                        if (c == '*') /* gawk supports %*d and %*.*f, we don't... */
                                 syntax_error("%*x formats are not supported");
                         c = *++f;
                         if (!c) { /* "....%...." and no letter found after % */
@@ -2422,12 +2422,18 @@ static char *awk_printf(node *n, size_t *len)
                                 double d = getvar_i(arg);
                                 if (strchr("diouxX", c)) {
 //TODO: make it wider here (%x -> %llx etc)?
+//Can even print the value into a temp string with %.0f,
+//then replace diouxX with s and print that string.
+//This will correctly print even very large numbers,
+//but some replacements are not equivalent:
+//%09d -> %09s: breaks zero-padding;
+//%+d -> %+s: won't prepend +; etc
                                         s = xasprintf(s, (int)d);
                                 } else if (strchr("eEfFgGaA", c)) {
                                         s = xasprintf(s, d);
                                 } else {
-//TODO: GNU Awk 5.0.1: printf "%W" prints "%W", does not error out
-                                        syntax_error(EMSG_INV_FMT);
+                                        /* gawk 5.1.1 printf("%W") prints "%W", does not error out */
+                                        s = xstrndup(s, f - s);
                                 }
                         }
                         slen = strlen(s);