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From: earle@SUN.COM (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: twm vs. gcc - Thanks everyone
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Date: 5 Apr 89 20:47:13 GMT
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Thanks to the millions who pointed out that sscanf() is trying to ungetc()
right onto the poor defenseless should-be-read-only input string to sscanf().
Also thanks for the suggested workarounds.

I will check and see if we are changing/fixing this in a future release of
SunOS.

	- Greg Earle
	  Sun Los Angeles - JPL on-site Software Support
	  earle@Sun.COM		...!sun!earle