From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:35:33 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: fmt: document verbs %b %d %o %x %X for printing pointers
X-Git-Tag: go1.10beta1~1341
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a4140b745ce22c56821750001f30fca4020b4650;p=gostls13.git

fmt: document verbs %b %d %o %x %X for printing pointers

This has been supported since Go 1 and there's even a test for it.
The documentation was missing.

Fixes #21409.

Change-Id: I5813488f6a98c1b4506c239e968d43344b91be12
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/59412
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/fmt/doc.go b/src/fmt/doc.go
index 014ba06948..d1ce8c4177 100644
--- a/src/fmt/doc.go
+++ b/src/fmt/doc.go
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
 		%X	base 16, upper-case, two characters per byte
 	Pointer:
 		%p	base 16 notation, with leading 0x
+		The %b, %d, %o, %x and %X verbs also work with pointers,
+		formatting the value exactly as if it were an integer.
 
 	The default format for %v is:
 		bool:                    %t