Re: Octave 64-it for Windows can't parse long hex integers

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--- Potorti
> On Octave 4.0.1 64-bit compiled for Windows, downloaded today from
> <http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/>, there seems to be a
> bug when Octave parses long hex literals.  This is what I observe, is
> this really a bug or am I missing something?
> 
> On Debian:
> 
> >> printf("%x\n", 123456789000)
> 1cbe991a08
> >> format long; 0x1cbe991a08
> ans =  123456789000
> 
> 
> On Windows:
> 
> >> printf("%x\n", 123456789000)
> 1cbe991a08
> >> format long; 0x1cbe991a08
> ans =  4294967295
> 
> In practice, when parsing a hex literal bigger than 2^32-1, octave reads
> it as 0xffffffff.
> 
> 

Thank you for the report.

If what you  observe is unknown, it should be resistered to the octave bug 
tracker?

Does someone know about the above?

Tatsuro