Re: Many error msgs for all user-documents in lout 3.38 (MS Vista + Cygwin)

Could you explain what the issue is?  What is wrong, or ambiguous,
about %f in a scanf format?  It seems totally normal and unambiguous.

Jeff

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:17:01PM +0800, KHMan wrote:
> I'm not really sure if newlib's sscanf is really at fault, because 
> its behaviour sounds wrong if we use "man scanf", but sounds right 
> if we use the ISO C draft standard n1256. So it seems all very 
> ambiguous...
> 
> -  if( sscanf((char *) str, "%f", &num) != 1 )
> +  if( sscanf((char *) str, "%31[0-9.]", &conv) != 1)