The attached patch fixes a small test problem which was revealed when cross-compiling libgmp 4.2.4 and then running the test suite under Wine. It is actually a bug (or feature) of Windows implementation of scanf, which is that it doesn't skip whitespace before %-specifiers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwwtf9ch(VS.71).aspx Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ Fedora now supports 68 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora