a bug?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  6, 2000, David Dibble <djdibble@cats.UCSC.EDU> wrote:

>  * scanf returns -1 (float scan) for a +  or - character and 
>  * fails to scan (char scan) on GCC > 2.9 and
>  * returns +1 (char scan) for same and succesfully scans character on GCC 
> ~ 2.7

AFAICT, nothing has changed in GCC to alter the behavior.  This is
most likely a change in GNU libc, which is a separate project from
GCC, so you'd better discuss this issue with its maintainers.

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