On 23.03.22 23:54, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> That's because ForkNum is a signed type. You will probably succeed if
>> you use "%d" instead.
>
> Erm, is that really OK? C says "Each enumerated type shall be
> compatible with char, a signed integer type, or an
> unsigned integer type. The choice of type is implementation-defined,
> but shall be capable of representing the values of all the members of
> the enumeration." It could even legally vary from enum to enum,
> though in practice most compilers probably just use ints all the time
> unless you use weird pragma pack incantation. Therefore I think you
> need an intermediate variable with the size and signedness matching the
> format string, if you're going to scanf directly into it, which
> David's V6 did.
An intermediate variable is probably the best way to avoid thinking
about this much more. ;-) But note that the committed patch uses a %u
format whereas the ForkNum enum is signed.
Btw., why the sscanf() instead of just strtol/stroul?
