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Re: Gawk printf problem with negative numbers


On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:28:23PM -0500, kenneth.shaffer@sciatl.com wrote:
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> I expected the output of a negative 1234 in hex to look like 0xfffffb2e:
>  
> > echo |gawk '{n = -1234; printf("0x%x\n",n+0)}'
> 0x-1234
> 
> > gawk --version
> GNU Awk 3.1.3
>  
> running under cygwin for the PC.
> 
> I believe the INTMAX_MIN mentioned in an earlier thread has something to do with it.

Correct.  I've uploaded a new gawk package.  The definition of INTMAX_MIN
has been fixed in current CVS.

Thanks for the report.

Corinna

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