The following reply was made to PR bin/155886; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dan Strick <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: bin/155886: bc(1) sometimes mangles hexidecimal numbers Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:37:10 -0700 (PDT)
> > This seems to be somewhat similar to Debian Bug 84995 where one can find > some explanations: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84995 > > When I append more and more zeros to your example input number, I finally > get the exact output. And another thing I noticed is that the output number > seems to always be shorter than the input number. Tested this with > 8.2-RELEASE. > Uh, ok ... so what should be done about this bug? Should it be reported to someone? Dan Strick [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
