bug#18807: seq does not play nice with large 64 bit integers

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/23/2014 03:15 PM, Thaddaeus Frogley wrote:
> Hi Padraig,
> 
> You say "quite a while".
> 
> This issue was found in: coreutils-8.23_1

Oh, it should have been fixed from release 8.20 (2012-10-23)

> 
> Installed on OS X using brew.
> 
> Pulling the current source I can see there have been several releases since 
> then, but a git diff / log doesn't seem to produce any relevant changes, i.e.:
> 
> git diff v8.23.. -- src/seq.c
> 
> 
> Are you *sure* that this range in particular doesn't reproduce in the latest?

Yes. That range triggers the fast string manipulation code here.
It's very surprising it doesn't there.

I see that seq is on OS X:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/seq.1.html
So please ensure you're not using the native seq, and rather gseq

If still an issue, you'd need to debug it further there
as I've not got access to OS X here.

thanks,
Pádraig.