Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Explain this sscanf behavior.
Keywords: sscanf ANSI
Message-ID: <17067@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 21:45:24 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.181830.2549@tc.fluke.COM> <1666@tuvie>
Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
Lines: 10

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