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Re: [PATCH] manual: Document the standardized scanf flag, "m". [BZ #16376]

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>
Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:42:30 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: Document the standardized scanf flag, "m". [BZ #16376]
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On 02/07/2018 12:46 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

IMHO the "a" modifier should be marked as deprecated, since it conflicts
with the %a format.  I think it would be enough to mention it in a
paragraph, but nowhere else.

Agreed. Also, I suggest modifying the NEWS entry for glibc 1.06 thattalks about the newly-introduced "a" modifier, so that it brieflymentions that the modifier is deprecated after glibc 2.28.

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