From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp73.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (smtp73.ord1d.emailsrvr.com [184.106.54.73]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71331385F3ED for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:22:02 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 71331385F3ED Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=mev.co.uk Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mev.co.uk DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=mev.co.uk; s=20221208-6x11dpa4; t=1671013322; bh=07WH2LKrOsHK6uXZEZ4T7BUk+6KgDrlmI6G5QE6WWkg=; h=Date:Subject:To:From:From; b=Kgo9SwxhPUzxbYRm46CcHChPYuk3/i8pRIeIlqmhLr+R4IwJfUqG224jxugs74jhb ZkBDNoZs0Wj69XQ+sAjjPjhzex9ytBs+6DtzOoI70bNqMpYU1qBJa8SvdkN61xhx6O 4iGZ9o1vdzKtxDLsBjoR5dEcEziVSn9Lq3gonz2o= X-Auth-ID: abbotti@mev.co.uk Received: by smtp18.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: abbotti-AT-mev.co.uk) with ESMTPSA id 5CE78A00F2; Wed, 14 Dec 2022 05:22:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <6c9645b1-d0e4-4064-0e55-a0bead7d1f71@mev.co.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:22:00 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] scanf.3: Do not mention the ERANGE error Content-Language: en-GB To: Zack Weinberg Cc: Alejandro Colomar , libc-alpha@sourceware.org, 'linux-man' References: <20221208123454.13132-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk> <5f490d45-b31e-279e-edcb-de4806b8ba54@gmail.com> <06f70d09-a258-7d6d-4a98-6a89ed761849@gmail.com> <6269173b-20cb-7b47-1ad9-6099a9baa052@owlfolio.org> <1f339439-3346-6732-3544-8e0e0a0f9823@mev.co.uk> From: Ian Abbott Organization: MEV Ltd. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Classification-ID: 6335bc75-ec13-417e-b25f-4f4a789bb77c-1-1 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,KAM_COUK,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 14/12/2022 02:18, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Ian Abbott writes: > >> 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_… >> >> 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! > > Yup. I suppose we could make up another flag … ‘@’ isn’t used for > anything … '@' isn't included in C's basic character set though. '&' is available. -- -=( Ian Abbott || MEV Ltd. is a company )=- -=( registered in England & Wales. Regd. number: 02862268. )=- -=( Regd. addr.: S11 & 12 Building 67, Europa Business Park, )=- -=( Bird Hall Lane, STOCKPORT, SK3 0XA, UK. || www.mev.co.uk )=-