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From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bug somewhere...
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:26:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008212613.GA15590@stratocaster.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210082007.WAA27767@pauillac.inria.fr>

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:07:01PM +0200, Pierre Weis wrote:
> A lot of problems in here: some are due to the semantics of the Scanf
> module some are due to the implementation, some are even deeper than
> those two!
> ... 
> To solve this problem, you should use bscanf and an explicitely
> allocated input buffer that would survive from one call to scanf to
> the next one. Considering that this phenomenon is general concerning
> stdin and scanf, I rewrote the scanf code such that it allocates a
> buffer once and for all. Hence this problem is solved in the working
> sources.

In the C stdio library, this is solved by ungetc() (push back an
already-read character).  That might be a useful addition to the
operations on in_channels.

-- 
Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-06 22:57 Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-06 23:06 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-08 20:07   ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-08 21:26     ` Eric C. Cooper [this message]
2002-10-08 23:31     ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-07  8:03 ` Pierre Weis

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