Re: scanf and m modifier

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 07/08/2016 11:22 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 7/8/2016 1:16 PM, Owen Leibman wrote:
>> The m modifier is handled just fine by the compiler, but
>> the results of using it are different on Cygwin than on several other
>> systems
>> I've tried. Here is a sample program:
> 
> Dear Owen -- The first question I'd ask is: What versions of gcc
> and C libraries are we talking about?  IIRC, the m feature is
> relatively new (relative being, umm, relative), so which gcc you're
> using, and the libraries, too, may matter.

scanf("%ms") is a POSIX extension, not required by C99.  I suspect the
answer is that no one has implemented it in newlib yet; patches welcome.

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