problem building gmp on Mac G5

[Kevin Ryde]

Kate Minola <kminola at po0.glue.umd.edu> writes:
>
> it seems that the output of sscanf in the above situation
> is not well-defined ... and in the FreeBSD case, not likely
> to change any time soon.

Hmm.  Well, I guess what c99 says is certainly about as clear as mud,
but I think I took the view that what it was trying to say was the
traditional style where what would be a 0 return becomes EOF if end of
input is encountered when wanting a match (ie. anything except
whitespace).

> I do not have access to other machines with operating
> systems based on FreeBSD other than Mac OS X v10.3 (which
> is based upon FreeBSD 5.0).  Thus I can not do a comparison
> check.

All our test systems except darwin7 follow our expectations.  There's
some freebsd5.0 and 5.1 among them.

What also makes me believe this darwin sscanf bit is either broken or
a very bad idea is that fscanf continues to return -1 for similar
input,

	#include <stdio.h>

	int
	main (void)
	{
	  printf ("%d\n",
	          scanf ("%*d"));
	  return 0;
	}

run as "./a.out </dev/null".

C99 explicitly says end of string for sscanf is equivalent to end of
file for fscanf :-(.

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