Michael Wirta wrote:
> I have been having a problem with scanf and floating point numbers in Cygwin
> on a WindowsME machine. I have run this same program under Linux
doubt it. see below.
> and have
> had no problems with it. As soon as the float number is entered the program
> terminates abnormally. The error message says there is a "Segmentation
> Fault : Probably a corrupted stack." The program I used is below, followed
> by the core dump file produced when the program is run. Note: I have not had
> any problems with scanf using strings or integers, only floating point
> numbers. I saw others mention this problem in the Cygwin mailing list
> archive, and someone reported that this bug had been fixed. However, I have
> the latest version of Cygwin installed, with the gcc that is included with
> the installation. Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void)
> {
> float a = 1;
>
> printf("number a is %f \n",a);
> scanf("===>%f",a);
should be 'scanf("===>%f",&a);' (note the '&a')
> printf("new number is %f \n",a);
> exit(0);
> }
--Chuck
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