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Re: Bash bug with ints beyond 2147483646


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Bash bug with ints beyond 2147483646
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:10:50 -0400
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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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