Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 24 02:09, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> > But that's just scanning a decimal integer to time_t.
> 
> It's not a question of whether I can or can't convert a string into an
> integer, rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s

I see your point but... "portability" is kind of the wrong expression
here.  If you have portability in mind, you should *not* use %s at all.
%s is a GNU extension and as such, is not portable by definition.


Corinna

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