Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:56:39 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Gawk printf problem with negative numbers Message-ID: <20031029085639.GG1653@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:28:23PM -0500, kenneth.shaffer@sciatl.com wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body > I expected the output of a negative 1234 in hex to look like 0xfffffb2e: > > > echo |gawk '{n = -1234; printf("0x%x\n",n+0)}' > 0x-1234 > > > gawk --version > GNU Awk 3.1.3 > > running under cygwin for the PC. > > I believe the INTMAX_MIN mentioned in an earlier thread has something to do with it. Correct. I've uploaded a new gawk package. The definition of INTMAX_MIN has been fixed in current CVS. Thanks for the report. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/