From: Message-Id: <200212131948.gBDJmiH04930@speedy.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: scanf buffer overflow; support 'hh' conversion specifier [PATCH] In-Reply-To: <10212130412.AA16294@clio.rice.edu> "from Charles Sandmann at Dec 12, 2002 10:12:07 pm" To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:48:44 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL78 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamScore: s Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk According to Charles Sandmann: > X pointer to int (hex) - Is this a documentation defect? Or real? I have 3.1 and it says this too. A little experiment reveals that the documentation is correct. Which makes X in borlandc useless as it's equal to x. Right, MartinS