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| -rw-r--r-- | man3/scanf.3 | 35 |
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diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3 index 55058f3d26..199c8a19a9 100644 --- a/man3/scanf.3 +++ b/man3/scanf.3 @@ -308,10 +308,6 @@ and the next pointer is a pointer to .I double (rather than .IR float ). -Specifying two -.B l -characters is equivalent to -.BR L . If used with .B %c or @@ -320,12 +316,33 @@ the corresponding parameter is considered as a pointer to a wide character or wide-character string respectively. .\" This use of l was introduced in Amendment 1 to ISO C90. .TP +.B ll +(ell-ell) +Indicates that the conversion will be one of +.BR b , +.BR d , +.BR i , +.BR o , +.BR u , +.BR x , +.BR X , +or +.B n +and the next pointer is a pointer to a +.I long long +or +.I unsigned long long +(rather than +.IR int ). +.TP .B L Indicates that the conversion will be either \fBe\fP, \fBf\fP, or \fBg\fP and the next pointer is a pointer to .I "long double" -or the conversion will be +or +(as a GNU extension) +the conversion will be \fBd\fP, \fBi\fP, \fBo\fP, \fBu\fP, or \fBx\fP and the next pointer is a pointer to .IR "long long" . @@ -683,17 +700,17 @@ floating-point conversion specifier (and is unaffected by etc.). .SH BUGS All functions are fully C89 conformant, but provide the -additional specifiers +additional modifiers .B q and .B a as well as an additional behavior of the .B L and -.B l -specifiers. +.B ll +modifiers. The latter may be considered to be a bug, as it changes the -behavior of specifiers defined in C89. +behavior of modifiers defined in C89. .PP Some combinations of the type modifiers and conversion specifiers defined by ANSI C do not make sense |