Question

I’m getting started in the C language. I am using eclipse (juno) as my IDE and installed CDT plugin. I have also unpacked mingw64 (GCC Compiler). I wrote a very simple program to see if it works. This is my code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int age;
    printf("Hello, please enter your age:\n");
    scanf("%d", &age);
    printf("Your age is %d", age);
    return 0;
}

The problem is that the output buffer is filled with the string value of the first printf but does not output it to the console. I have to enter a number, and only then the buffer pours all the data to the console so I see the console something like this:

1
Hello, please enter your age:
Your age is 1

instead of what is expected that is:

Hello, please enter your age:
1
Your age is 1

Now, I found that I can use fflush(stdout) after the first printf but I don’t think that this solution is elegant and even necessary. Any ideas on how I can overcome this?

EDIT – because I’m learning this in my university, I can’t use anything that wasn’t learned in the course so I can only use printf and scanf

NEW EDIT – I think I have found an explanation for this. As I said, I am outputting to the console view inside Eclipse. The strange thing is that if I compile and run the program from the command line of Windows, I get the wanted result. Therefore, I think that eclipse is actually writing the output to a file and presenting it in the console window. How can I force eclipse to open a real command line window in my run configurations?

Answer 1

Apparently this is a known bug of Eclipse. This bug is resolved with the resolution of WONT-FIX. I have no idea why though. here is the link:
Eclipse C Console Bug.