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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ThinkC scanf() bug. Missing 0
Message-ID: <3452@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 6 May 91 10:50:13 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.124752.3233@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
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This is probably in the FAQ, but here goes anyway.  Think C 4.0 has a
bug in scanf for floating point numbers.  You also get it with atof()
and strtod().  An upgrade to 4.02 which fixes this bug (and many more
that aren't so serious) is freely available from several sources; I
got it from SUMEX.

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"