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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:00:11 +0200
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: Implementation of %n$ conversion specifier for scanf family of functions.
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> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:40:48 +0100
> From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
> 
> Keeping the variable name shall make the djgpp description
> match the linux scanf man page description and the descriptio given in
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/scanf.html>

That's not Linux docs, that's Posix docs.  There's a huge difference.

> +@code{%@var{n}$} form.  When numbered argument specifications are used,
> +specifying the @var{n}th argument requires that all the leading arguments,
> +from the first to the (@var{n-1})th, are pointers.

This should be (@var{n}-1)th.  Only N is a parameter, 1 is not.

Thanks.