From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) Subject: Re: Problem with gcc 2.1 (why do I have to flush stdout?) Date: 27 May 1992 13:17:01 GMT
in article <1992May27.090814.15104@athena.mit.edu>, ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk (GEC-Marconi Research Centre) says:
> *** someone else replied:
> | Welcome to ANSI C. ANSI C says that you can't rely on printf() flushing
> | your output. Lots of people are getting bitten my this with the new
> | IBM compiler for OS/2 also.
On most systems, tty i/o is line-buffered, so you need to have a \n in your
format, BUT output also gets flushed by the next input, as in his scanf.
This is a tty driver/line discipline thing, not necessarily ANSI.
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