Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:04:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Gawk printf problem with negative numbers
In-Reply-To: <bnnbtt$rs7$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0310290059560.9558@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
References: <T65902760dfc0a87563404 AT sausmailstop DOT sciatl DOT com> <bnnbtt$rs7$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org>
Importance: Normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Shankar Unni wrote:

> kenneth DOT shaffer AT sciatl DOT com wrote:
>
> >> echo |gawk '{n = -1234; printf("0x%x\n",n+0)}'
> > 0x-1234
> >> gawk --version
> > GNU Awk 3.1.3
>
> Definitely a cygwin port problem. On linux, it does print 0xfffffb2e.
> (At least, versions 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 on Linux do - I don't have the
> latest version compiled on Linux).
>
> In either case, the bug report belongs in the cygwin-apps mailing list,
> not the cygwin list itself (which is concerned more with the cygwin
> platform).
> --
> Shankar.

Umm, no, this is the correct place for the bug reports.  See
<http://cygwin.com/lists.html#cygwin-apps>.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton

--
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/