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

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

An update. As far as I can tell, it's a Cygwin bug, and I've 
posted a query on the Cygwin list.

For the following test cases:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
     char *foo1 = "10i";
     char *foo2 = "0i";
     char *foo3 = "0.0i";
     char *foo4 = "1.0i";
     char *foo5 = "0.1i";
     float f;
     printf("%d ", sscanf(foo1, "%f", &f)); printf("%f\n", f);
     printf("%d ", sscanf(foo2, "%f", &f)); printf("%f\n", f);
     printf("%d ", sscanf(foo3, "%f", &f)); printf("%f\n", f);
     printf("%d ", sscanf(foo4, "%f", &f)); printf("%f\n", f);
     printf("%d ", sscanf(foo5, "%f", &f)); printf("%f\n", f);
}

On Cygwin:
$ ./test
1 10.000000
0 10.000000
1 0.000000
1 1.000000
1 0.100000

So it works fine for most things except '0'. Looks like a Cygwin 
bug for sure. Once there is more information from the Cygwin 
people, I will put up a brief wiki page on this for the Lout wiki.

> 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)

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia