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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:48:08 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Scanf with a long long.
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010906113816.022a6c48@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:39:23AM -0400

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:39:23AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 11:32 AM 9/6/2001, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's a newlib problem. Nobody implemented strtoll or strtoull
> > > so far.  So scanf can't call them.
> >
> >So, what didn't you take the one from glibc, or the one written

Newlib can't take from glibc due to licensing constraints.

> >by DJ Delorie?  Newlib seems to include other things from him
> >too.
> 
> 
> Patches are generally accepted from anyone who cares to make them.

That's right and it's sometimes really easy:  Nobody cared to
send a patch to the newlib folks so far and the newlib folks
are doing other stuff.

> >Anyway, I took the time to write my own version, if anybody is
> >intrested.
> 
> 
> The newlib folks may be.  Why not send it on to them?

I agree.

Corinna

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