[Mingw-users] strangeness with sscanf and the '%hc' format

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

Hey

according to msdn :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xdb9w69d%28VS.71%29.aspx

to get an unsigned char, i should use "%hc" as modifier (i think that 
"Single-byte" means unsigned char, as "%c" is for char (being signed or 
unsigned))

But if I compile this program (with gcc 4.5.0) :

[code]

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
   char buf[32];
   unsigned char uc;

   /* fill buf here */
   sscanf(buf, "%hc", &uc);
   return 0;
}

[/code]

then gcc reports that format "%hc" expects type 'short int *' but argument 
3 has type 'unsigned char *'

According to the same link above, for short in, it's 'h' with 'd', 'i', 
'o', 'x', or 'X'

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in header files ?

thank you

Vincent Torri