charmap-dir warning

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> > Is the charmap-dir.c warning problematic?
> >
> 
> gcc doesn't handle the 'a' flag, not format, according to what printf does.

GCC deliberately follows the standard in C99 mode rather than the
(documented in CONFORMANCE) glibc bug of always overriding the standard
with the pre-C99 extension when certain characters follow %a in scanf
formats.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk