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From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: hps@intermeta.de, schwab@suse.de,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: sscanf("-1", "%d", &i) fails, returns 0
Date: 14 Nov 2002 09:34:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037295254.27832.11.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0211122241490.29595-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net>

(Sorry for taking so long to review something so short, btw.)

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:06, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2002, Ray Lee wrote:
> | Explicitly, in the scan conversion you'd do a:
> |   unsigned int *u = (unsigned int *) va_arg(args,long long *);
> |   *u = (unsigned int) converted_value;

(Luckily you didn't follow my code snippet too closely. Oops.)

> See if this is close...
<snip>
> I think that this patch (to 2.5.47) gets the kernel close
> to the same semantics as C's sscanf() function, which is
> usually a good thing.  What say you?

The sample conversions and patch look correct. Time to forward it
onward, me thinks.

Ray


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-14 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-11 14:54 [PATCH] Re: sscanf("-1", "%d", &i) fails, returns 0 Ray Lee
2002-11-11 19:09 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-11 20:08   ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-11 20:25   ` Ray Lee
2002-11-13  7:06     ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-14 17:34       ` Ray Lee [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-08 13:32 Douglas Gilbert
2002-11-08 19:22 ` [PATCH] " Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-08 19:41   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-08 19:59     ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-08 20:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-08 22:09         ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-10 13:41           ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-11-11  3:05             ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-11  4:19               ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-11  9:27               ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2002-11-11 14:38               ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-08 20:23       ` Richard B. Johnson

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