Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is only implemented with 32-bit number capability -

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:48, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 04), Wayne Sierke said: On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:48, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 03), Wayne Sierke said: I'm using the printf function in awk but something ain't right: # jot 4 30 | awk '{ printf(%u\n, 2^$1-1) }' 2147483648 # jot 4 30

Size of variables in awk

2004-03-02 Thread Wayne Sierke
It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is only implemented with 32-bit number capability - unfortunately I don't have any other awks nearby to verify

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:25:27PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is only implemented with 32-bit number