Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:50:12 GMT From: Dan Strick <mla_strick@att.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/155886: bc(1) sometimes mangles hexidecimal numbers Message-ID: <201104100950.p3A9oCkG005619@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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
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