Re: Explain this sscanf behavior.

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From: Karl Heuer
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 21:45

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In article <1666@tuvie> inst182@tuvie.UUCP (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
>To add a new variant, on a DECstation 3100 (Ultrix 2.1) both cc (1.31) and
>gcc (1.37) give the following results:
>	x=2, a=123, b=3
>	x=1, a=123, b=3

That first one has to be wrong; you can't get a return value of 2 when you
only have one input format specifier (%n doesn't count).

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint

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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Explain this sscanf behavior.
Keywords: sscanf ANSI
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Date: 11 Jul 90 21:45:24 GMT
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