A couple of messages back I wrote:
| But it is obvious that at least the NetBSD sh, bash, bosh, zsh,
| and ksh93 have a builtin printf (the error messages differ...)
I should have included dash and yash in that list - their error messages
are very similar to what /usr/bin/printf on NetBSD prints (and the NetBSD sh,
which uses the same source code for its builtin printf), but when I looked
closer, I can see they are not actually the same - so those clearly have
a builtin printf as well (they behave the same way as bash, the NetBSD sh
and bosh).
It might be useful to know what the printf utility (the one
from the filesystem) outputs for
/path/to/printf '%d\n' 0xffffc00000000000
on Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Linux, MacOS, and anything else
similar anyone can test that on. If you get
18446673704965373952
and no error message, then please try with more 0's appended
to actually force overflow to happen.
kre
ps: the FreeBSD sh may have its own builtin printf when running on FreeBSD,
but the version I have either seems not to have printf built in, or built
in the NetBSD printf (or happens to have something that acts identically).
I could check the sources, and the way I built it, but it isn't really
important.
