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From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Scanf with a long long.
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010906174808.K537@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010906113816.022a6c48@pop.ma.ultranet.com>

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:39:23AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 11:32 AM 9/6/2001, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's a newlib problem. Nobody implemented strtoll or strtoull
> > > so far.  So scanf can't call them.
> >
> >So, what didn't you take the one from glibc, or the one written

Newlib can't take from glibc due to licensing constraints.

> >by DJ Delorie?  Newlib seems to include other things from him
> >too.
> 
> 
> Patches are generally accepted from anyone who cares to make them.

That's right and it's sometimes really easy:  Nobody cared to
send a patch to the newlib folks so far and the newlib folks
are doing other stuff.

> >Anyway, I took the time to write my own version, if anybody is
> >intrested.
> 
> 
> The newlib folks may be.  Why not send it on to them?

I agree.

Corinna

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-09-06  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05 15:54 Kurt Roeckx
2001-09-06  0:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-09-06  8:32   ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-09-06  8:38     ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-09-06  8:48       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]

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