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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <6942@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 04:19:12 GMT
References: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU> <2046@haddock.ISC.COM> <400@uniq.UUCP> <2124@haddock.ISC.COM> <633@mcdsun.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <633@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
> *	I believe this to be a legitimate bug in sscanf that will
> *	eventually need to be fixed anyway to achieve ANSI compatibility.

Yup, it must be a bug.  It doesn't appear to exist in the portable
C implementation of _doscan() shipped with SVR2.0.