On Monday August 17 2009 05:23:49 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > 11. gawk failed 3 tests
> > ======== Starting machine-specific tests ========
> > double1
> > ./double1.ok _double1 differ: char 1, line 1
> > make[2]: [double1] Error 1 (ignored)
>
> This is an error because it does
> BEGIN {
> print 9223372036854775808
> }
>
> but the output is -9223372036854775808
>
> The same test works fine on an older P4 system. The number is 2^63, so
> gawk is not handling a 64 bit interger overflow properly.
>
> > double2
> > ./double2.ok _double2 differ: char 247, line 4
> > make[2]: [double2] Error 1 (ignored)
> > fmtspcl
> > intformat
> > ./intformat.ok _intformat differ: char 1, line 1
> > make[2]: [intformat] Error 1 (ignored)
>
> These tests are similar.
>
> -- Brucehttp://osdir.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils-gnu/2009-09/msg00022.html "These tests are known to fail on machines that aren't IA32. It's OK to ignore the failures." Might be worth mentioning this in the book robert
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