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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:09:25 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Egor Duda <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with scanw() in ncurses
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Egor Duda wrote:
> 
> when  i  looked  at it last time i've seen the following code fragment
> along this function execution:
> 
> ncurses\base\vsscanf.c:
> 
> ....
> NCURSES_EXPORT(int, vsscanf)
> (const char *str, const char *format, va_list ap)
> {
>         /*
>          * You don't have a native vsscanf(3), and you don't have System-V
>          * compatible stdio internals.  You're probably using a BSD
>          * older than 4.4 or a really old Linux.  You lose.  Upgrade
>          * to a current C library to win.
>          */
>         return -1;      /* not implemented */
> }
> ...
> 
> i believe this is the reason.

So cygwin 'loses' because it's using newlib, and newlib doesn't provide
vsscanf ?  Hmmm....

--Chuck

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