Vendor uucore::format and migrate printf.rs to use it #1534

Background

First consumer of the module-vendor mode tool capability tracked in #1533.

crates/bashkit/src/builtins/printf.rs is ~766 LoC, of which roughly 600 are a handwritten format-specifier parser. uutils has a battle-tested, fuzzed equivalent in src/uucore/src/lib/features/format/. Verification confirmed:

• The format/ module's imports are platform-clean: std, bigdecimal, num-traits, unit-prefix, os_display, and a handful of uucore-internal types (extendedbigdecimal, UError, NonUtf8OsStrError). No rustix, fluent, or icu_locale come from inside format/.
• FormatError's Display impl uses Display-only formatting (no {:?}) — TM-INF-022 clean by inspection.
• format/ has no width/precision DoS caps: format/num_format.rs calls String::with_capacity(precision) and iter::repeat_n('0', N) without bounds. A wrapper enforcing the existing MAX_FORMAT_WIDTH = 10_000 cap is mandatory.

This issue is the end-to-end use of #1533: register format/ in the vendoring manifest, generate the module, migrate printf.rs, prove the build matrix.

Acceptance criteria

• Depends on Add module-vendor mode to bashkit-coreutils-port #1533 (module-vendor mode merged first).
• format/ registered in the vendoring manifest introduced by Add module-vendor mode to bashkit-coreutils-port #1533, pinned to the same uutils revision the args codegen currently uses.
• crates/bashkit/src/builtins/generated/format/ produced by port-module, committed to the repo.
• Internal-type substitutions documented in the manifest:
  • extendedbigdecimal → inline (small file)
  • UError → replace with bashkit's crate::error::Error or stripped if only used for error-propagation traits we don't need
  • NonUtf8OsStrError → inline or replace with a local equivalent
• New direct deps in crates/bashkit/Cargo.toml: bigdecimal, num-traits, unit-prefix, os_display. Versions aligned to uutils' workspace pins.
• Width/precision wrapper:
  • Pre-validates the format string before calling sprintf. Suggested implementation: iterate parse_spec_only(...), reject any spec where width or precision exceeds MAX_FORMAT_WIDTH.
  • Wrapper lives in printf.rs (or a small helper module under builtins/) — not inside the generated format/ directory, so regenerating the module never overwrites the cap.
  • Unit tests cover: width over cap, precision over cap, asterisk-resolved width over cap (%*s with arg 999_999), nested sub-spec ignoring cap (verify wrapper still catches it).
• crates/bashkit/src/builtins/printf.rs switches its format-spec parsing to call into super::generated::format::sprintf(...) (or chosen entry point). Handwritten format-spec parsing is removed; body shrinks to VFS/stdout glue.
• TM-INF-022: a new unit test exercises every FormatError variant via bashkit::testing::assert_no_leak to confirm Display-only output.
• All existing printf spec tests stay green (tests/spec_cases/bash/printf*.test.sh and any inline tests).
• Build matrix:
  • cargo build -p bashkit --release — green.
  • cargo build -p bashkit --target wasm32-unknown-unknown — green (this is the whole point — uucore-as-runtime-dep broke this; vendor must preserve it).
  • cargo build -p bashkit --no-default-features — green.
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — green.
• Release build time on bashkit-cli does not regress beyond +20 s vs current main. The probe-measured uucore-runtime cost was +98 s; vendor-only cost should be a fraction.
• specs/coreutils-args-port.md "Vendored modules" section (introduced by Add module-vendor mode to bashkit-coreutils-port #1533) gets a format entry with the substitution decisions used.

Verification artefacts (probe branch)

This issue should restore wasm ✅, deliver real format parity, and add only the four small numeric-deps' compile cost.

Out of scope

• Adding the module-vendor mode (covered by Add module-vendor mode to bashkit-coreutils-port #1533).
• Vendoring other modules (ranges, parser-num, version-cmp, quoting-style) — separate consumer issues.
• Differential testing for printf — covered by Differential testing harness for ported coreutils builtins (vs. uutils binaries) #1530's harness; printf gains a fixture row after this lands.
• Changing the public Spec / FormatArgument API beyond what bashkit needs.

Open questions

• Width-cap location. Inside the wrapper in printf.rs (recommended — generated module stays untouched on regen) vs as a patch applied by the codegen tool itself (more invasive, easier to forget). Recommend the wrapper.
• Internal-type substitutions. Whether UError is needed at all once format/ is divorced from uucore's wider error machinery, or whether a tiny local Error shim is enough. Decide during the port — the manifest captures the decision.

Related

• Add module-vendor mode to bashkit-coreutils-port #1533 — module-vendor mode (blocker)
• feat(builtins): port uutils argument surfaces via codegen (POC: cat, tac) #1529 — codegen POC (args mode)
• Differential testing harness for ported coreutils builtins (vs. uutils binaries) #1530 — differential testing harness (printf row added after this)
• specs/coreutils-args-port.md
• crates/bashkit/src/builtins/printf.rs
• crates/bashkit-coreutils-port/