Jim Meyering wrote: > > powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0 > > --- out 2008-10-25 > +++ exp 2008-10-25 > @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ > -18446744073709551615 > +9223372036854775807 > 9223372036854775808 > > > FreeBSD i386-unknown-freebsd6.1 > > + diff -u out exp > --- out 2008-10-25 > +++ exp 2008-10-25 > @@ -1,1026 +1,2 @@ > 9223372036854775807 > 9223372036854775808 > -9223372036854775808 > -9223372036854775808 > ... > -9223372036854775808 > -9223372036854775808 > > While neither is new and both should be addressed, > fixing corner cases like these is not high priority for me. > > Obviously, using gmp here (like in expr and factor) would solve > this nicely. > > So either the sizeof test is insufficient, or > there are other bugs (I suspect the latter).
Me too. Some compromises with the new approaches were mentioned: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-06/msg00202.html > For now, I may just sweep this under the rug > and skip the test on systems without glibc. That's fine I think. Running `seq` at floating point limits is certainly not common. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
