On 11/2/10 3:48 PM, Pete Gregory wrote:
> Even with a 64-bit kernel, under bash4.1-2 under ubuntu 10.04, problems exist
> with numbers beyond 2147483646.
>
> Easy duplication method:
> echo {2147483640..2147483646}
> reports
> 2147483640 2147483641 2147483642 2147483643 2147483644 2147483645 2147483646
> echo {2147483640..2147483647}
> dies with a malloc error
Thanks for the report. The problem was integer truncation. It will be
fixed in bash-4.2.
Chet
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