On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Stephane Chazelas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:35:27PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > [...] >> In the GNU and UC versions of the libc (at least), the >> scanf/fscanf/sscanf... functions seem to be calling strtoxxx >> internally for number conversions. >> >> In doing so, errno may be set to ERANGE when the input doesn't >> fit in the number size requested and possibly to EINVAL for a >> figures not in the requested base. > [...] > > For information, dietlibc's scanf doesn't exhibit that behavior. > On other Unices, it seems to vary, and it doesn't seem to be > often clearly documented.
Hi Stephane, Thanks for the note. I will look at this a bit more. I see you sent a note into the Austin list about this. Two things: it's alway worth CCing me on such notes, since I do follow Austin. second: you may make more headway by raising a proper bugreport against the standard -- these bug reports are called Aardvarks. Look on the Austin site for info. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
