Bug#453408: is this bug same as #155835?

[Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>]

First of all, thank you for aknowledge my bug report.

I've checked b.d.o and noticed that the bug report is merged to
bug #155835.  so I've read the log and it seems that bug #155835 is
about c99 and gnu extension conflict.

as I said in the previous message, I just want to use gnu extension
version of %as, not c99. and it works if the given buffer is not
empty.  but dies with empty string, like '""'.

so I thought that it is a bug in the gnu extension side.

I know you guys understand glibc much better than I do. so this not
questioning what you guys are doing, but rather I'd like to have some
explanation why #453408 and #155835 are merged, if possible. so if
someone like me checked the log will understand why.

Thank you for your time.
-- 
          yashi