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Alan Hourihane a écrit :
> Yeah, it's o.k. turns out to be the shell.
> 
> Not to worry.

Unfortunately, you're wrong. The problem is in the MiNTLib.
The main idea is that the text mode (CR+LF) should only be used with 
regular files (if not disabled by UNIXMODE=b), and never used with 
pipes. The shell statement `command` does exactly what is expected : it 
runs the command to a pipe, then replaces spaces and LF by single 
spaces. The CR characters are treated as normal characters (not 
removed). It should not be a problem, because no end-of-line CR should 
be present in the pipe.
I know very well the problem, because some time ago, I had a discussion 
about that with Cygwin people, where the situation is similar.

The current MiNTLib always configures stdout in textmode, regardless if 
it is connected to a device (console), a file, or a pipe. It really 
should check for that, like Cygwin.

A workaround is to configure the correct mode by hand at the beginning 
of the program.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

main()
{
     /* Never use text mode to pipes. */
     struct stat st;
     fstat(1, &st);
     if (S_ISSOCK(st.st_mode))
         __set_binmode(stdout, 1);

     putchar('a');
     putchar('\n');
}

This will work as expected in all cases.

Note that during my tests, I got the same results with putchar() and 
printf(), maybe you made a mistake somewhere.

-- 
Vincent Rivière