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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Community's Cavalier Attitude On Software Reliability
Message-ID: <16046@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 21:53:51 GMT
References: <8147@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1990Feb26.234321.1072@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <1990Feb26.234321.1072@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <8147@hubcap.clemson.edu> wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe) writes:
>>   SCANF(3S)  The success of literal matches and suppressed
>>              assignments is not directly determinable.
>
>Yup, a slightly bad design which is difficult to fix ...

Since nobody else has said it yet, I will:

Fixed in ANSI C, via the "%n" directive.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint