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Any idea why the sscanf below core dumps (bus error) when the
following program is compiled with gcc version 1.39?
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#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
   int n, i;
   float x;
   char name[50];
   n = sscanf ("25 54.32E-1 thompson", "%d%f%s", &i, &x, name);
}
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I'm running SCO 3.2 version 2 on a Compaq 386 Systempro.  We've been
using gcc for months now on hundreds of thousands of lines of code
with no problems whatsoever until this.  The supplied compiler works
fine, and things work fine on our HP machines with their compilers.
DJ Delorie says he couldn't get 1.40 to fail (on MS-DOS?).

The example is from the man page.  Things work fine if I pass in a
buffer containing the string to the scan rather than the constant.

Thanks for any help.
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