Peter,
> > I've put a fix into unit.c to get round this specific problem.
> > There is always a chance of course that this Cygwin bug could break other
> > bits of AST. But putting a proper fix for it into the astSscanf function
> > in memory.c (which is used throughout AST in place of sscanf) could take a
> > while, and it sounds like you need a quick fix.
>
> Hi David,
>
> a patch has been produced to fix this issue in newlib, so at some point
> (undefined, depends on the next Cygwin release cycle), we should be able
> to remove this patch. Hopefully I'll remember to check and let you know.
Thanks for the info. The patch itself should not be dangerous to AST, I
was more meaning that the patch may not fix all occurrences of the cygwin
bug.
David
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