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From: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: printf, scanf and %p (was: Solaris 2.6)
Date: 11 Dec 96 13:28:44 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
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js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>You forget to say, that %p is guaranteed to produce an output format
>that may be read in again with *scanf(). So it is really portable.
Is scanf("%p") on a system of type A supposed to read in the output of
printf("%p) on a system of type B? Someone mentioned, the output of
printf("%p") is implementation defined, which would lead to the
conclusion, that is is not true.
73, Mario
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