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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: scanf %x allows leading 0x?!?
Message-ID: <16129@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 May 91 03:33:04 GMT
References: <161@thor.sdrc.com> <725@taumet.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <725@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>It is the explicitly-specified behavior in ANSI C.  On systems which
>do not follow the ANSI standard, you may get different behavior.

Larry knows that, he just didn't remember voting on it.
I recall (vaguely) that it was a deliberate decision.