As (1) both OpenPKG and non-OpenPKG Bash, (2) both old and new versions
of Bash and (3) the error does not exists on other platforms, I would
say: yes, Bash is broken on your IRIX64 platform.
For me it looks that it already incorrectly _parses_ (and not just
evaluates) the $((..)) construct. The problem you can just hunt down
by using a debugger or at least instrumenting Bash with many debugging
printf's.
Fair enough - but before I go hunting down a (potentially) phantom bug,
could someone just confirm that my syntax is right in the first place ;)
Someone suggested that "A=$(( 3 + 4 ))" should evaluate as "A=$7" - but I
think this is most likely wrong (as trying to execute "3" doesn't make
sense in this context).
*Should* "A=$(( 3 + 4 ))" result in A having value 7?
Is "A=$(( 3 + 4 ))" synonomous with "(( A = 3 + 4 ))"?
Cheers,
Stuart
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