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Bug 3341

Summary: SDL_sscanf() problem
Product: SDL Reporter: eugeneopalev
Component: mainAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED ABANDONED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: philipp.wiesemann
Version: 2.0.4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows 7   
Attachments: Example code

Description eugeneopalev 2016-05-23 11:50:10 UTC
Created attachment 2461 [details]
Example code

Why does SDL_sscanf() always returns the number of format specifiers and doesn't implements standard C library behavior?
Comment 1 Philipp Wiesemann 2016-07-02 21:34:59 UTC
SDL_vsscanf() is not implemented correctly.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2017-05-25 00:18:41 UTC
Sam, how dangerous would it be to correct this behavior in our sscanf() code? No idea if anything relies on this being wrong.

--ryan.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2017-06-02 22:54:49 UTC
Nothing is relying on this behavior, it would be fine to fix.
Comment 4 Sam Lantinga 2017-08-12 02:36:24 UTC
Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/10b07421903d
Comment 5 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-08-06 21:20:18 UTC
Hello, and sorry if you're getting dozens of copies of this message by email.

We are closing out bugs that appear to be abandoned in some form. This can happen for lots of reasons: we couldn't reproduce it, conversation faded out, the bug was noted as fixed in a comment but we forgot to mark it resolved, the report is good but the fix is impractical, we fixed it a long time ago without realizing there was an associated report, etc.

Individually, any of these bugs might have a better resolution (such as WONTFIX or WORKSFORME or INVALID) but we've added a new resolution of ABANDONED to make this easily searchable and make it clear that it's not necessarily unreasonable to revive a given bug report.

So if this bug is still a going concern and you feel it should still be open: please feel free to reopen it! But unless you respond, we'd like to consider these bugs closed, as many of them are several years old and overwhelming our ability to prioritize recent issues.

(please note that hundred of bug reports were sorted through here, so we apologize for any human error. Just reopen the bug in that case!)

Thanks,
--ryan.