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From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:19:22 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?
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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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John Stalker
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