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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:19:31 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: error in scanf reading %le format and 00 exponent
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On Mar  8 14:01, Charles L. Werner wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> As mentioned in the previous message, reading exponential format NEGATIVE 
> numbers with an
> exponent of 00 fails in the current 1.5.13 cygwin dll.
> 
> example: -1.1e00 is interpreted as 1.1 rather than -1.1
> 
> I just tested the most recent snapshot of the cygwin dll of 050308 and 
> scanf also fails to
> read the test example correctly. Under the previous version of the Cygwin 
> dll 1.5.12, all is well.

That's a bug in newlib.  Your original mail has been forwarded to the
newlib mailing list yesterday.

Corinna

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