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Re: scanf() cand read what printf() produced: NaNs and Inf


> printf() generate special tokens when outputing float/doubles that are
> not numbers (NaN) or are infinity (Inf).
> However, scanf() can't read those tokens. Is this deliberate?

You sent this to the egcs list, but egcs does not provide printf and
scanf.  You'll need to talk to whoever provides your C library (if you run
Linux and it is GNU libc, they have their own bug list
(bug-glibc@gnu.org).