Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:17:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fscanf "%lf" misses the "-" sign in "-5.0e+00" on cygwin 1.5.13-1 Message-ID: <20050401201734.GA29015@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4245AF8A DOT F24A3ABC AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4245AF8A.F24A3ABC@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:52:58AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Isselmou dellahy wrote: >>I'm using cygwin 1.5.13-1 and gcc version 3.3.3 to compile the following >>foo.C : >>... >>The compiler does'nt show any warning and when executed prints: >> >>n=1 x=5.000000 >> >>missing the "-" sign. > >You're seeing the same bug that was reported here > and forwarded >to the newlib list here >, currently with no >replies. It's a newlib problem, so make noise over there. I'm sure >they'd love a patch to fix it. :) Corinna submitted a patch for this to the newlib mailing list yesterday. The fix will be in the soon-to-be-released 1.5.14. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/