Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:15:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with gets
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> fflush() does NOT clear the input buffer.  That it does so under
> Borland, et. al. is an example of these compilers' noncompliance with
> the ANSI standard.

More precisely, ANSI says that the effect of `fflush' on an input
stream is ``undefined''.  So it's not the compilers that make `fflush'
do something in this case which are noncompliant, it's a program which
uses `fflush' on an input stream and expects some specific effect.