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Re: Using SCANF with DOUBLE precisi

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From: karl
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1986 15:19
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orion!vaughan writes:
>After having my code bomb several times (unfortunately, I was not as lucky
>as you - instead of zeroes, I got core dumps), I discovered this ...

That's unlucky?  I'd rather get a core dump (which tends to point right at
the error) than the wrong answer (which may not become visible for a while).

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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Subject: Re: Using SCANF with DOUBLE precisi
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 11:19:00 EDT
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