--- /dev/null
+--- gmp-4.2.4.orig/tests/misc/t-scanf.c 2008-08-02 21:11:59.000000000 +0100
++++ gmp-4.2.4.sscanf/tests/misc/t-scanf.c 2009-01-28 16:42:26.000000000 +0000
+@@ -93,6 +93,24 @@
+ return result;
+ }
+
++/* This is a problem found on i686-pc-mingw32, running binaries under
++ Wine. Windows scanf functions don't skip whitespace before %-specifiers
++ [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwwtf9ch(VS.71).aspx] */
++int
++test_sscanf_s_skips_whitespace (void)
++{
++ char str[16];
++
++ if (sscanf (" ", "%s", str) == EOF)
++ return 1;
++ else
++ {
++ printf ("Warning, sscanf (\" \", \"%s\", str) != EOF.\n");
++ printf ("This affects gmp_sscanf, some tests will be suppressed.\n");
++ return 0;
++ }
++}
++
+
+ /* Convert fmt from a GMP scanf format string to an equivalent for a plain
+ libc scanf, for example "%Zd" becomes "%ld". Return 1 if this succeeds,
+@@ -1489,6 +1507,7 @@
+ }
+
+ /* EOF for no matching */
++ if (test_sscanf_s_skips_whitespace ())
+ {
+ char buf[128];
+ ret = gmp_sscanf (" ", "%s", buf);