Problem with scanf reading long types in scientific notation

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Sean Robert McGuffee <sean.mcguffee@gmail.com> writes:

> Regarding all the scanf functions reading long values
> (sscanf,fscanf,scanf,... etc...).

I'm sorry, this is the wrong mailing list.  gcc is just the compiler.
Functions like sscanf, fscanf, scanf are part of the C library.  gcc
does not provide a C library.

In any case the behaviour of these functions is specified by industry
standards, and it is unlikely that anybody is going to change their
meaning at this point.

Ian