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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