Re: gawk number to string bug

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:39:25AM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report. I was able to reproduce it on a 64-bit RHEL system.
> 
> The patch below fixes the problem. I may ultimately fix it differently; on
> the test program I get different behaviors from the Bell Labs awk and from
> mawk, so I haven't 100% decided how I want gawk to behave.

Perhaps I'm missing something subtle, but why wouldn't something
as simple as the attached patch do the trick (i.e. simply convert
the floating point value to a long, then convert that value back
to floating-point, and see whether it matches the original value)?

Regards,
Andy

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