At Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:16:30 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20041220T010216+0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > GNU extension is GNU's feature, not a bug. Glibc provides %as with > > the historical reasons. If you don't want to use it, you should just > > remove it. If you have another opinion or point of view to improve > > it, show us your proposal. > > Well, if GNU Libc wants to stay C99 incompatible, it's their choice. > I hope that the decision is widely published so that people know to > choose some other libc.
"%as" is GNU extension. Why don't you want to use "%a" instead of "%as"? Note that C99 defines "%a" as signed floating-point number, not modifier flag like l,L. Or am I missing something? > However, the decision is upstream's. I'd appreciate if you could > forward this bug upstream like you're supposed to. > > Note that I compiled the demonstration program with --std=c99, and I > would hope that this choice of language dialect is communicated to the > libc. Libc could then choose whether to use the legacy GNU semantics or > C99 semantics based on the dialect selection (I believe that a > conditional #define in <stdio.h> can choose which scanf implementation > is used). Note that if you want to select the glibc's definition behavior, _D_ISOC99_SOURCE and so on can be used explicitly. See info libc. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
