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From: Dan Strick <mla_strick@att.net>
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Subject: Re: bin/155886: bc(1) sometimes mangles hexidecimal numbers
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The following reply was made to PR bin/155886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan Strick <mla_strick@att.net>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, coloncolonone@googlemail.com, mla_strick@att.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/155886: bc(1) sometimes mangles hexidecimal numbers
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:37:10 -0700 (PDT)

 >
 > This seems to be somewhat similar to Debian Bug 84995 where one can find
 > some explanations: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84995
 > 
 > When I append more and more zeros to your example input number, I finally
 > get the exact output.  And another thing I noticed is that the output number
 > seems to always be shorter than the input number.  Tested this with
 > 8.2-RELEASE.
 >
 
 Uh, ok ... so what should be done about this bug?  Should it be reported
 to someone?
 
 Dan Strick
 mla_strick@att.net