Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 10:50:58 +0200 From: "Grzegorz B. Mazur" To: david AT df DOT lth DOT se, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: using scanf to read long double? First, the compiler has NO RIGHT to check the args for scanf, because it doesn't know what is scanf, and how the format string for it should look. I am not quite sure if GCC supports long double on 386 (80 bits is not a very typical format...) - it can be treated as double. If this is the case, everything works OK... Gregory