Re: The difference in string and char[], readf() and scanf()

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 15:05:56 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
Generate a 100000-character string:
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import std.range, std.stdio;
void main () {'a'.repeat (100000).writeln;}
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Try to copy it with D scanf and printf:
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import std.stdio;
void main () {
        char [100000] a;
        scanf ("%s", a.ptr);
        printf ("%s\n", a.ptr);
}
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Only 32767 first characters of the string are actually copied.

That doesn't happen on linux, but I could reproduce it in wine. 
Seems to be a bug in the C runtime (snn.lib). I filed an issue:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14315