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| -rw-r--r-- | man3/sscanf.3 | 15 |
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diff --git a/man3/sscanf.3 b/man3/sscanf.3 index 2211cab7d..4c0bdc318 100644 --- a/man3/sscanf.3 +++ b/man3/sscanf.3 @@ -359,7 +359,6 @@ No conversion is done (but initial white space characters are discarded), and assignment does not occur. .TP .B d -.IR Deprecated . Matches an optionally signed decimal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to .IR int . @@ -374,7 +373,6 @@ the next pointer must be a pointer to .\" is silently ignored, causing old programs to fail mysteriously.) .TP .B i -.IR Deprecated . Matches an optionally signed integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to .IR int . The integer is read in base 16 if it begins with @@ -387,18 +385,15 @@ and in base 10 otherwise. Only characters that correspond to the base are used. .TP .B o -.IR Deprecated . Matches an unsigned octal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to .IR "unsigned int" . .TP .B u -.IR Deprecated . Matches an unsigned decimal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to .IR "unsigned int" . .TP .B x -.IR Deprecated . Matches an unsigned hexadecimal integer (that may optionally begin with a prefix of .I 0x @@ -409,33 +404,27 @@ be a pointer to .IR "unsigned int" . .TP .B X -.IR Deprecated . Equivalent to .BR x . .TP .B f -.IR Deprecated . Matches an optionally signed floating-point number; the next pointer must be a pointer to .IR float . .TP .B e -.IR Deprecated . Equivalent to .BR f . .TP .B g -.IR Deprecated . Equivalent to .BR f . .TP .B E -.IR Deprecated . Equivalent to .BR f . .TP .B a -.IR Deprecated . (C99) Equivalent to .BR f . .TP @@ -661,8 +650,8 @@ Instead, programs should use functions such as .BR strtol (3) to parse numeric input. -This manual page deprecates use of the numeric conversion specifiers -until they are fixed by ISO C. +Alternatively, +mitigate it by specifying a maximum field width. .SS Nonstandard modifiers These functions are fully C99 conformant, but provide the additional modifiers |