Hi, I have noticed that the description about the %s type modifier in the official scanf man page is a bit misleading (man3/scanf.3:454). It currently states "the next pointer must be a pointer to character array". However the (C99) standard says "the corresponding argument shall be a pointer to the initial element of a character array". So IMHO the wording of the man page is sloppy at best - a pointer to an array is not the same as a pointer to its first element (which can also obtained by just supplying the name of the array). This led to some confused students and lecturers here ;) The man pages of e.g. FreeBSD and Opensolaris contain "the next pointer must be a pointer to char" and "a pointer to the initial byte of an array of char" respectively. I have not checked others. KR -- Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Tauner Research and Development Embedded Systems Department University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien Hoechstaedtplatz 6, 1200 Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 333 40 77-316 E: stefan.tauner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I: embsys.technikum-wien.at I: www.technikum-wien.at -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
