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Subject: Re: XP bug? (code fragment)

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 11:58:56 08/27/04

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On August 27, 2004 at 14:28:06, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>The following program gives me other output in XP than under previous windows
>versions:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <conio.h>
>
>int main(int argc, char* argv[])
>{       char Buf[16] = {0};
>
>        setbuf(stdin, NULL);
>
>        while(1)
>        {   if(kbhit() )
>            {   gets(Buf);
>                printf("Received: %s\n", Buf);
>            }
>        }
>        return 0;
>}
>
>Output:
>
>aaa
>Received: Paa
>
>So, if after typing aaa the first character seems to go lost. I am pretty
>certain that under Win98 it worked like intended. Is this a bug?
>
>(I am using XP with Borland C++ Builder 4.0)
>
>Bas.


with msc6 under XP i get
aaa  (or any other sequence)
Received: d

Seems that stdin does not work unbuffered.

Gerd



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