From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:19:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090110161922.B3AFF8E35@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c91c7fe31a20bb07b2f23c522965868@proxima.alt.za>
For what it's worth, bwk awk does not have this problem, so the error
must be in code introduced later.
> Note the 5946903e318 which AWK may mistakenly treat as a floating
> point constant. Now to figure how to prevent such errors...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-10 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-10 5:57 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-10 6:26 ` lucio
2009-01-10 6:39 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-10 16:19 ` John Stalker [this message]
2009-01-10 19:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-10 21:45 erik quanstrom
2009-01-11 7:07 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-11 7:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-11 9:30 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
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