zstrtol/strtol breakage

zstrtol/strtol breakage

[Richard Coleman]

I'm trying to figure out what to do about the
zstrtol/strtol breakage.  My first question is
on which platforms is this broken?  I know about
Solaris and SunOS, but are there others?  If it is
broken, then the command

echo {1..10}

will give

{1..10}

rather than

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

You should be using beta8 or beta9 to see this
(if you have a broken strtol).

If only Sun is showing this breakage, then I'll probably
write a configure test for this.  If this is just me
misunderstanding the man page for strtol, then I'll
just put zstrtol back.

rc

Re: zstrtol/strtol breakage

[Richard Coleman]

> Solaris and SunOS, but are there others?  If it is
> broken, then the command
> 
> echo {1..10}
> 
> will give
> 
> {1..10}
> 
> rather than
> 
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 
> You should be using beta8 or beta9 to see this
> (if you have a broken strtol).

oops. A broken strtol will probably give you

1..10

not

{1..10}

I still find it hard to believe that this would be
broken on Sun for so long (I get the above result on
SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3, Solaris 2.3/2.4).  I was beginning
to think it was just my misunderstanding of the strtol
function until I tried it on Irix 5.3 (which gives the
correct result).

rc

Re: zstrtol/strtol breakage

[J.Yeates]

Quote Of The Day from Richard Coleman:
>echo {1..10}
>
>will give
>
>{1..10}
>
>rather than
>
>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>
>You should be using beta8 or beta9 to see this
>(if you have a broken strtol).

I'm using beta8 on Solaris 2.3, and I get this:

sunbox - ~: echo {1..10}
. 0 1

Configure defined HAVE_STRTOL.

It also seems to refuse to run .zshlogin and .zshlogout, even when I run it
as '-zsh' or 'zsh -l' (I have to hack it from my .profile, as I can't set
it as my default shell without installing it on all our systems :) Usually,
it dumps core when invoked from .profile, thus:

	echo "Let's use zsh instead"
	exec /export/home/johny/bin/-zsh

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