__isoc99_scanf and scanf

Question

I was studying various compiler option in GCC and observing changes when I made changes in the standard to be used.

$ gcc Q1.c -Wall -save-temps -o Q1
$ vi Q1.s
         


        

Answer 1

scanf(3) manual mentions several type modifiers characters introduced in c99:

j      As for h, but the next pointer is a pointer to an intmax_t or a uintmax_t.  This modifier was introduced in C99
t      As for h, but the next pointer is a pointer to a ptrdiff_t.  This modifier was introduced in C99.
z      As for h, but the next pointer is a pointer to a size_t.  This modifier was introduced in C99.
a      (C99) Equivalent to f

Answer 2

The reason is strict following of c99 disallow some existing GNU extension conversion specifiers.

In glibc 2.17, in libio/stdio.h there is this comment:

/* For strict ISO C99 or POSIX compliance disallow %as, %aS and %a[
   GNU extension which conflicts with valid %a followed by letter
   s, S or [.  */
extern int __REDIRECT (fscanf, (FILE *__restrict __stream,
    const char *__restrict __format, ...),
    __isoc99_fscanf) __wur;
extern int __REDIRECT (scanf, (const char *__restrict __format, ...),
    __isoc99_scanf) __wur;
extern int __REDIRECT_NTH (sscanf, (const char *__restrict __s,
      const char *__restrict __format, ...),
      __isoc99_sscanf);