ANSI draft interpretation question: scanf("%*n", ...

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <21623 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>  Does `%*n' write to anything, or is the `assignment' suppressed?

The paragraph around line 40 on page 136 of the December draft makes it
clear that the result of the conversion for the n specifier is subject
to assignment suppression by *.  (Yes, there IS a conversion, just no
input operation.)