Gawk printf problem with negative numbers
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 29 12:03:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:28:23PM -0500, kenneth.shaffer@sciatl.com wrote:
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> I expected the output of a negative 1234 in hex to look like 0xfffffb2e:
>
> > echo |gawk '{n = -1234; printf("0x%x\n",n+0)}'
> 0x-1234
>
> > gawk --version
> GNU Awk 3.1.3
>
> running under cygwin for the PC.
>
> I believe the INTMAX_MIN mentioned in an earlier thread has something to do with it.
Correct. I've uploaded a new gawk package. The definition of INTMAX_MIN
has been fixed in current CVS.
Thanks for the report.
Corinna
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