Re: Second beta version of gawk 3.1.6 now available

[Aharon Robbins]

In article <address@hidden> you write:
>Ah, thanks.  First, the diffout target is not portable to all non-GNU
>make; see this trivial patch.  Further output below.

Patch applied. It should show up in CVS within an hour.

>- hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
>
>============== _double1 =============
>============== _double2 =============
>============== _ovrflow1 =============

Apparently hardware or library differences in the way %.0f is
implemented. Not a show stopper.

>============== _fmtspcl =============
>*** fmtspcl.ok  Mon Oct  1 12:48:20 2007
>--- _fmtspcl    Mon Oct  1 12:56:10 2007
>***************
>*** 1,9 ****
>  gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:10: warning: sqrt: called
>with negative argument -1
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>nan is out of range for `%x' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>nan is out of range for `%d' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>nan is out of range for `%x' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>nan is out of range for `%d' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>1.79769e+308 is out of range for `%x' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>1.79769e+308 is out of range for `%d' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>-1.79769e+308 is out of range for `%x' format
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: warning: [s]printf: value
>-1.79769e+308 is out of range for `%d' format
>--- 1,3 ----
>  gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:10: warning: sqrt: called
>with negative argument -1
>! gawk: ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/fmtspcl.awk:6: fatal: floating point exception
>! EXIT CODE: 2
>============== _intformat =============
>*** ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/intformat.ok Tue Jan 30 18:26:50 2007
>--- _intformat  Mon Oct  1 12:56:13 2007
>***************
>*** 1,2 ****
>! 3 -3 17
>! 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
>--- 1,2 ----
>! gawk: intformat.awk:7: fatal: floating point exception
>! EXIT CODE: 2

These are a little troubling, but I'm not sure what to do about them.
Can I get ssh access to this system for debugging?

>- sparc-sun-solaris2.6
>============== _mtchi18n =============
>*** ../../gawk-3.1.5h/test/mtchi18n.ok  Fri Jan 12 12:00:38 2007
>--- _mtchi18n   Mon Oct  1 13:02:55 2007
>***************
>*** 1,2 ****
>--- 1,3 ----
>+ ksh[2]: ../gawk: couldn't set locale correctly
>  1
>  1

This is Solaris ksh weirdness. I bet that if you use bash this one will
go away.  It's a non-issue in any case.

Thanks!

Arnold
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