Bug#155835: libc6-dev: scanf a flag conflicts with C99

["Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho" <ajk@debian.org>]

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.2.5-12
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

The "a" flag to scanf (a GNU extension, used like %as) conflicts with
the C99 definition of the a conversion.  GCC 3 already warns about the
use of %a with -std=c99 and -std=gnu99, but the libc version uses the
GNU semantics.  This should be fixed eventually.  In the meantime, the
documentation should be changed to warn about this.

>From ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E), page 278:

   a,A    A double argument representing a floating-point number [...]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kukkaruukku 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro

Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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