Re: [PATCH] scanf.3: Do not mention the ERANGE error

Ian Abbott
2022-12-12T15:31:52Z

On 12/12/2022 02:11, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> (Field widths are awkward to use because you have to write them as
> decimal constants _inside the format string_, which makes them more
> likely to get out of sync with the actual size of the buffer than,
> say, the buffer-size argument to ‘fgets’, but this is not a fatal
> flaw in and of itself.)

It's a shame that scanf's maximum field width couldn't be specified
using an integer parameter in the same was as printf's minimum field
width, but the '*' flag was already taken!

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