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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti backup example vs. 2GB
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:28:14 -0400
From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
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I think that the floating-point exception is from converting the
internal floating-point representation of start to an int for printing
with %d.  Numbers above 2^31 won't fit in a signed int, thus the
exception.  awk doesn't seem to have any form of vlong, nor %lld;
perhaps it should.