Puzzled!

Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
Thu Dec 5 16:07:00 GMT 2002


> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:26:55 -0800
> From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
> 
> whoever reports these problems needs to try 2.3.1 and report bugs if
> they find them.

This is a commercial organization that is trying to sell a competing C
library, so I'm afraid it's unlikely they will report bugs nicely to us.
However, you can see their glibc 2.2.5 summary in:

http://www.dinkumware.com/conform_c.html#glibc225_results

It may be helpful to read their summary directly, as it provides context.


> >     * The |SCN| macros for unsigned integers that correspond to the |X|
> >       specifier for |fscanf| in |inttypes.h| are not implemented.
> 
> Are there supposed to be SCNX* in addition to SCNx*?

An implementation is allowed to define SCNX*, but is not required to.



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