mawk in Ubuntu and Debian is 18 years, see LP bug #1332114 I think this bug should be marked as duplicate of bug #1332114 Many bugs of Mawk are fixed in a new upstream versions 1.3.4-2010nnnn-2015nnnn, but the Debian maintainer does not want to update for an obscure reason. We need to push here: http://bugs.debian.org/554167
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #554167 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167 ** Also affects: mawk (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mawk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1159933 Title: mawk %d maxes out at 0x7FFFFFFF instead of 0xFFFFFFFF Status in mawk package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mawk package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: I'm honestly not sure if this is a bug or just an implementation decision, but it's different than gawk or original-awk, so I'm reporting it. This caused problems for coreboot which is using awk to calculate addresses up at the 0xFFFXXXXX range. We worked around it by using %.0f to print the values. using the test: printf %u 0xFFFFFFFF | awk '{printf("%.0f %u %d", $1 , $1 , $1 )}' mawk: 4294967295 2147483647 2147483647 original-awk: 4294967295 2147483648 4294967295 gawk: 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 I'm using ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS, and mawk 1.3.3-17. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/1159933/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp