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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue,  1 Dec 2009 21:35:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] compiler double bug.
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those fixes really don't seem right to me. the problem is in getival
or its callers. somewhere along the way, ULONG_MAX is converted to double
and then back to int (directly or indirectly). that yields a trap. now, in the case
	int x;
	x = (uint)d;
the compiler is wrong to eliminate the cast, but then again, if x isn't uint
that's not going to work properly anyway (since x will go negative for big enough values of d).

what's getival? there isn't one in the awk copies i can see.