Re: seq: revert Solaris 8 work-around that caused x86 regression

2008-10-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > > powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0 > > --- out 2008-10-25 > +++ exp 2008-10-25 > @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ > -18446744073709551615 > +9223372036854775807 > 9223372036854775808 > > > FreeBSD i386-unknown-freebsd6.1 > > + diff -u out exp > --- out 2008-10-25 > +++ exp 2008-10-25 > @@ -1,1

Re: seq: revert Solaris 8 work-around that caused x86 regression

2008-10-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here's the bug: >> >> $ seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 >> 9223372036854775807 >> 9223372036854775808 >> 9223372036854775809 > ... >> We can't easily add the above test case, since it's not portable to

Re: seq: revert Solaris 8 work-around that caused x86 regression

2008-10-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the bug: > > $ seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 > 9223372036854775807 > 9223372036854775808 > 9223372036854775809 ... > We can't easily add the above test case, since it's not portable to > hosts where long double == double. Here's a propo

Re: seq: revert Solaris 8 work-around that caused x86 regression

2008-10-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the bug: > > $ seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 > 9223372036854775807 > 9223372036854775808 > 9223372036854775809 > > This is Debian stable x86, compiled with GCC 4.3.2. > This worked correctly in older 'seq' versions. > > The problem is th