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Date:	Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:17:34 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: fscanf "%lf" misses the "-" sign in "-5.0e+00" on cygwin 1.5.13-1
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:52:58AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Isselmou dellahy wrote:
>>I'm using cygwin 1.5.13-1 and gcc version 3.3.3 to compile the following
>>foo.C :
>>...
>>The compiler does'nt show any warning and when executed prints:
>>
>>n=1 x=5.000000
>>
>>missing the "-" sign.
>
>You're seeing the same bug that was reported here
><http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00342.html> and forwarded
>to the newlib list here
><http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2005/msg00173.html>, currently with no
>replies.  It's a newlib problem, so make noise over there.  I'm sure
>they'd love a patch to fix it.  :)

Corinna submitted a patch for this to the newlib mailing list yesterday.
The fix will be in the soon-to-be-released 1.5.14.

cgf

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