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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:51:55 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.1 bug in fscanf("%lf", &a)
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In-Reply-To: <3AEA4B1A.8BFA8CFE@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:46:18AM -0400

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:46:18AM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> How about
>> 
>> Subject:  What gives with scanf in cygwin 1.31?
>> 
>> That has a nice ring to it and I'm sure that the repetition will serve
>> to motivate someone.
>
>sarcasm aside, I don't think its necessary.  I rebuilt a debuggable
>kernel from current CVS (of both winsup and newlib) and the scanf()
>functions work.  Well, okay, I only explicitly tested vsscanf(), but
>that should cover them all since __svfscanf_r() is used by all *scanf()
>functions.  I didn't single-step the new version in gdb, 'cause it
>worked okay (why "debug" a working routine?)
>
>The question is: how did this problem happen?  I dunno -- chalk it up to
>a thinko.  I tested my changes -- but didn't explicitly test stuff that
>I *knew* was already working -- like the %f scanning in the core routine
>called by all *scanf() functions.  Somehow, though, between my changes,
>Jeff's changes, etc. %f parsing got broken.  But it seems fixed now.

Didn't Jeff's newlib changes just fix this?

cgf

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