Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:58:39 -0400 From: Ashok Vadekar To: Mark Schamberger Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bug report: sscanf problem with cygwin 1.3.1-1 Message-ID: <20010427135839.G4114@volta.certicom.com> Reply-To: avadekar@certicom.com References: <3AE9A1EA.EC0961C6@labs.mot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3AE9A1EA.EC0961C6@labs.mot.com>; from Mark_Schamberger-A11451@email.mot.com on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:44:26AM -0500 Might this be a locale issue? I believe that you can specify the scanf parsing rules such that either of: 1,234.567 1.234,567 gets parsed as "one thousand, two hundred thirty-four decimal ..." If cygwin's code base includes locale support, maybe the default local has changed. On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:44:26AM -0500, Mark Schamberger wrote: > I have verified this problem on three different machines, each with the > complete "current" installation of cygwin. (Windows NT4.0 sp6, Windows > 2000 sp1) > > When using sscanf to read double values from a string, the resulting > value is incorrect. The following piece of code demonstrates the > problem: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > #include > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) > { > double d; > > sscanf("12.345","%lg",&d); > printf("%lg\n",d); > } > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > Instead of the expected 12.345, it results in 12345 (it appears that > decimal points and exponents are not understood properly). > > If I revert FROM cygwin 1.3.1-1 back TO cygwin 1.1.8-2, the bug > disappears. > > Anyone else experience this problem? > > Thanks, Mark Schamberger > mas@labs.mot.com > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple