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| -rw-r--r-- | libc/stdio/scanf.c | 11 |
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diff --git a/libc/stdio/scanf.c b/libc/stdio/scanf.c index a8f9f0ed0..dbb92392c 100644 --- a/libc/stdio/scanf.c +++ b/libc/stdio/scanf.c @@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ * fix this, I need to rework the "ungetc" machinery in stdio.c again. * I do have one reference though, that seems to imply scanf has a single * character of lookahead. + * + * May 20, 2001 + * + * Quote from ANSI/ISO C99 standard: + * + * fscanf pushes back at most one input character onto the input stream. + * Therefore, some sequences that are acceptable to strtod, strtol, etc., + * are unacceptable to fscanf. + * + * So uClibc's *scanf functions conform to the standard, and glibc's + * implementation doesn't for the "100ergs" case mentioned above. */ #include <stdlib.h> |