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Re: gawk: Locale-dependant bug with string to floating point conversion
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Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: gawk: Locale-dependant bug with string to floating point conversion |
Date: |
Sat, 1 May 2004 11:12:51 +0200 |
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Hello,
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:56:10PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 2. That same spec under "Lexical conventions" says that a NUMBER
> shall be equivalent to either a C99 floating-constant or
> integer-constant, except that a floating-constant can't include a
> suffix (f, F, l, L), and some other restrictions about
> integer-constants.
the restrictions say that integer constans can be decimal only.
Allowing non-decimal floating point constants seems very weird in
this context.
My humble comment would be that this is a bug in the standard and
it should be reported, not implemented.
Thank you for pointing out the bug in the specification.
Have a nice day,
Stepan Kasal