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Re: Problem with scanw() in ncurses
Egor Duda wrote:
>
> when i looked at it last time i've seen the following code fragment
> along this function execution:
>
> ncurses\base\vsscanf.c:
>
> ....
> NCURSES_EXPORT(int, vsscanf)
> (const char *str, const char *format, va_list ap)
> {
> /*
> * You don't have a native vsscanf(3), and you don't have System-V
> * compatible stdio internals. You're probably using a BSD
> * older than 4.4 or a really old Linux. You lose. Upgrade
> * to a current C library to win.
> */
> return -1; /* not implemented */
> }
> ...
>
> i believe this is the reason.
So cygwin 'loses' because it's using newlib, and newlib doesn't provide
vsscanf ? Hmmm....
--Chuck
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