Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:58:43PM -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Yes -- but that function can blow up the first time that it tries to touch
>> its arguments in a numeric context. So it would have to break them into two
>> smaller integers without using arithmetic and without the benefit of
>> ${foo:a:b} (these toy shells don't support that form of expansion).
>>
>> That will be ugly and slow.
>
> (Or you could use dc, which would be ugly and fast, and probably less work)My initial tests with BusyBox dc have not given me a warm and fuzzy feeling: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/shorewall/trunk/Shorewall-common$ ~/dc 2953838592 p 2.95384e+09 -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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