10-08-2018
A call to fflush() flushes data held in an output stream buffer to the underlying file; it doesn't flush input streams. The return value from scanf() has told you that you don't have a floating point number at the start of the stream, but there is still unmatched data sitting in the buffer. If there wasn't any unmatched data, it would have reported EOF. Another call to scanf() with a different format might successfully match a hexadecimal input value, a character value, or a string value. If you replace the fflush(stdin); with another scanf() to skip over a string value (i.e. scanf("%*s");), you might get what you want... Or, you might not. You haven' t given a very clear description of what sort of input might be entered by your input source.
Note, however, that an EOF or an I/O error condition on the input stream will still leave you with an infinite loop. And, if you're dealing with humans typing input, you need to perform much better error handling.
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explain_fflush_or_die
explain_fflush_or_die(3) Library Functions Manual explain_fflush_or_die(3)
NAME
explain_fflush_or_die - flush a stream and report errors
SYNOPSIS
#include <libexplain/fflush.h>
void explain_fflush_or_die(FILE *fp);
int explain_fflush_on_error(FILE *fp);
DESCRIPTION
The explain_fflush_or_die function is used to call the fflush(3) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained
from the explain_fflush(3) function, and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
The explain_fflush_on_error function is used to call the fflush(3) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr,
obtained from the explain_fflush(3) function, but still returns to the caller.
fp The fp, exactly as to be passed to the fflush(3) system call.
RETURN VALUE
The explain_fflush_or_die function only returns on success, see fflush(3) for more information. On failure, prints an explanation and
exits, it does not return.
The explain_fflush_on_error function always returns the value return by the wrapped fflush(3) system call.
EXAMPLE
The explain_fflush_or_die function is intended to be used in a fashion similar to the following example:
explain_fflush_or_die(fp);
SEE ALSO
fflush(3)
flush a stream
explain_fflush(3)
explain fflush(3) errors
exit(2) terminate the calling process
COPYRIGHT
libexplain version 0.52
Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller
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