To: ronis AT onsager DOT chem DOT mcgill DOT ca (David Ronis)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: bug in scanf() 
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 94 18:01:18 +0200
From: Fulvio Corno <corno AT athena DOT polito DOT it>


I believe this is not a bug, but a consequence of buffered input:
when an illegal input is entered, it is not *consumed* by scanf(), so
at the next iteration the buffer contents are unchanged, hence the
infinite loop.

The same behavior shows up on my Sun.

	Fulvio

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