On 07/26/2014 10:32 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 07/26/2014 07:06 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> seq(1) could not determine the width of large values toward INF >> values. Therefore, specifying -w is useless in such a case. >> >> * src/seq.c (main): Output an error diagnostic when the -w option >> is specified together with non-finite values for FIRST or LAST. >> * tests/misc/seq.pl: Add tests. >> * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention the change. > > We already restrict -w to be incompat with --format. > However that's an invariant aspect of seq invocation. > One might have a script that took the end point as a parameter, > which would now fail. I've a slight preference for the > existing behavior of ignoring -w in this case, like we > do for hex inputs for example.
I agree, let's leave it then. Thanks. Have a nice day, Berny
