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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:36:18 +0100
From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:07:13PM +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > > I think ISO-C is pretty clear here.
> 
> It would be wise to raise this on comp.std.c which is read by several
> of the ISO C standard authors.  Things that seem "pretty clear" often
> turn out not to be...

This topic is discussed almost once per year in comp.std.c, see e.g.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=esvRTfAyaFy2Ewgv%40on-the-train.demon.co.uk
for a reply from a member of JTC1/SC22/WG14.  FreeBSD's *scanf()
implementation seems to be just fine.

Cheers,
Stefan