bug#12959: "seq -w -1e-3 9" misaligned

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/22/2012 10:58 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 10:49 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While the output of (1) "seq -w -1e-2 9" prints the width as expected, the output of (2) 
> > "seq -w -1e-3 9" does not:
> >   (1) vs. (2)
> > -0.01 | -0.001
> > 00.99 | 0.999
> > 01.99 | 1.999
> > 02.99 | 2.999
> > 03.99 | 3.999
> > 04.99 | 4.999
> > 05.99 | 5.999
> > 06.99 | 6.999
> > 07.99 | 7.999
> > 08.99 | 8.999
> >
> > Similarly, see "seq -w -1e2 -98" vs. "seq -w -1e3 -998".
> >
> > Can you kindly confirm that the bug was introduced 4 years ago in the following 
> > commit: 
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=86e4b778b148bdd82395fdc312ce8d937f303e33
>
> Confirmed:
>
> $ ~/git/coreutils/src/seq -w -1e-3 1
> -0.001
> 0.999
>
> $ ~/git/coreutils/src/seq -w -.001 1
> -0.001
> 00.999

The attached should fix this.

thanks,
Pádraig.

seq-w-e.diff
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