From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Arith parsing bug with minus after $#
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 21:42:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55676FB1.9080401@inlv.org> (raw)
After the getopts patch (which appeared within an hour after my report
-- impressive!), I ran into another hurdle with the same shell function.
Doing arithmetic calculations with the shell parameter containing the
number of positional parameters ($#) triggers a parsing bug in
arithmetic evaluation.
In current zsh git code:
$ zsh
% set --
% echo $#
0
% echo $(($#-1))
41
Expected output: -1, of course. Sometimes 81 is produced instead of 41!
I haven't figured out a pattern yet.
% echo $(($#-(1+1)))
zsh: bad math expression: operator expected at `(1+1)'
(expected output: -2)
In both cases, it does work correctly if a space is inserted before the
'-', but that space should be optional.
Enabling 'emulate sh' makes no difference.
This must be a long-standing bug, becasue zsh 4.3.11 that came with my
Mac has it too.
(According to my testing, other shells that support arith all do this
correctly.)
- Martijn
next reply other threads:[~2015-05-28 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-28 19:42 Martijn Dekker [this message]
2015-05-29 15:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-29 15:43 ` Martijn Dekker
2015-05-29 18:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-29 19:33 ` Martijn Dekker
2015-05-29 20:48 ` ZyX
2015-05-29 21:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-30 19:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-30 19:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-30 22:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-30 23:30 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-06-07 1:08 ` Bart Schaefer
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