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According to Martin Knapp-Cordes on 10/22/2008 12:17 PM:
> This means that the MATLAB startup shell script is indeed
> not Open Group compliant. Obviously, no change will be
> necessary to the script if the proposed fixes are approved,
> as they appear
Hello,
Eric Blake is correct. I glossed over a short paragraph
in the Open Group standard doc page for 'expr' at the end
of the 'Application Usage' section where there is a statement
that permits something like '-1' to look like an option not the
integer, '-1'.
This means that the MATLAB startup
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According to Martin Knapp-Cordes on 10/21/2008 8:31 AM:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to respond to any earlier claim made that
> there is a "long-standing bug in matlab startup script".
> We at the MathWorks disagree.
Unfortunately, your disagreement is
Hello,
I would like to respond to any earlier claim made that
there is a "long-standing bug in matlab startup script".
We at the MathWorks disagree.
Please observe the following by reading carefully
the online documentation for the Open Group Standard,
UNIX Version 3, expr command. The POSIX sta
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I've attached a patch to standardize the format of the
> AUTHORS define to that used in other utils with multiple authors.
> I've also added you to the list since you basically rewrote
> expr with this patch.
Good changes.
Please push that at your lei
Excellent stuff. You got a net reduction of 366 lines,
and another 91 lines are not used in the common case
where GMP is available.
I'm a bit worried by signed overflow checking in the following.
I know gcc won't do it's ignore undefined signed overflow
code shenanigans with this, but does this as
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> For reference, here's a small patch I just wrote that solves
>> at least some of the problems reported here, while retaining
>> the ability to use MP at run time.
>
> I'd essentially done the same thing, so I think that will solve
>
Jim Meyering wrote:
> For reference, here's a small patch I just wrote that solves
> at least some of the problems reported here, while retaining
> the ability to use MP at run time.
I'd essentially done the same thing, so I think that will solve
most of the backwards compat issues.
Note if leavi
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Here's a proposed patch to do that. This change is a bit larger than
> it has to be compared to 7.0, because (to be conservative) when in doubt
> it does things the pre-7.0 way rather than the 7.0 way. For example, it
> uses the same diagnostics as pre
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that. Clearly it's a matlab bug. But just as
> clearly, many scripts out there assume that "expr -1 + 1" evaluates to
> zero. We shouldn't break them unnecessarily.
>
> I looked at expr.c and have a somewhat radical suggestion. Let's
Thanks for reporting that. Clearly it's a matlab bug. But just as
clearly, many scripts out there assume that "expr -1 + 1" evaluates to
zero. We shouldn't break them unnecessarily.
I looked at expr.c and have a somewhat radical suggestion. Let's remove
the --bignum and --no-bignum options, an
>> > > if [ ! " $lscmd" ]; then
>> That expression can never be true due to the additional space.
Thanks. We too caught that overzealous edit on my part shortly
after my posting to the bug-coreutils@gnu.org list, and fixed
it locally, using the -z test instead, just as you suggested.
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Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Pádraig Brady on 10/14/2008 3:47 AM:
>>> With native versions of expr, and expr from GNU coreutils prior to
>>> version 7.0, the expansion of lscmd usually begins "-rw-r--r--", but
>>> the leading hyphen does not cause the word to be treated as an option.
>> I think
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According to Pádraig Brady on 10/14/2008 3:47 AM:
>> With native versions of expr, and expr from GNU coreutils prior to
>> version 7.0, the expansion of lscmd usually begins "-rw-r--r--", but
>> the leading hyphen does not cause the word to be treated
Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I've just filed a bug report with The Mathworks, vendor of the
> widely-used Matlab matrix algebra system. Their bin/matlab startup
> script (all versions up to current) contains code like this:
>
> if [ `expr "$lscmd" : '.*->.*'` -ne 0 ]; then
>
> With native v
Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> < if [ ! "$lscmd" ]; then
> ---
> > if [ ! " $lscmd" ]; then
That expression can never be true due to the additional space.
I suggest using the -z operator instead.
if [ -z "$lscmd" ]; then
Bob
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I've just filed a bug report with The Mathworks, vendor of the
widely-used Matlab matrix algebra system. Their bin/matlab startup
script (all versions up to current) contains code like this:
if [ `expr "$lscmd" : '.*->.*'` -ne 0 ]; then
With native versions of expr, and expr from GNU cor
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