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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: Ben Wing <ben AT 666 DOT com>
Subject: Re: Scanf bug
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Ben Wing wrote:
> >
> > Somehow or other, sscanf() has gotten messed up in recent Cygwin
> > installations.
>
> I believe this probably belongs on the newlib list, since Cygwin uses
> newlib for libc.

CGF already forwarded this report there.

> That said, it looks like the following could be your culpret... Or at
> least, it's the only scanf-related newlib commit that I can find in the
> last 6 months that seems to be applicable.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/newlib-cvs/2004-q2/msg00034.html
>
> Brian

That was actually a fix for a similar problem, reported here:
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2004/msg00262.html>.
	Igor
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