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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio scanf.3 vfscanf.c
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I wrote:
>I had this patch in my "needs more work" basket.  Its use of strtoq() and
>strtouq() for ints and longs is inefficient in all cases and incompatible
>in overflow cases.  The behaviour in overflow cases seems to be undefined,

NetBSD (vfscanf.c 1996/03/30) seems to have the same problems as the
patched version.  It also supports %ll and doesn't completely lose for
long doubles.

Bruce