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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: TC++: "floating point formats not linked"
Message-ID: <279@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 07:21:01 GMT
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In article <15316@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
/You could of course also have the compiler pay special attention to the
/format strings for *scanf() and *printf(), although that is not foolproof.

I think this would be a bug in the compiler for these reasons:
1. The format strings may not be available to the compiler, as they
   may be built dynamically or be in another module.
2. The library is supposed to be independent of the compiler. Having the
   compiler recognize these things could make it very problematical if
   somebody rolled their own printf/scanf.