Re: printf inconsistent results for %.0f

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/12/24 10:30 AM, Laur Aliste wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 21
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>      One of my old script that's been in use for 10+ years is using
> built-in bash printf
>      for rounding float value to int via `printf`; as of today (Aug 12)
> it started
>      returning erroneous and inconsistent results.
>      Note it doesn't require float input value - trying to format full integers
>      reproduces the problem the same.

It's probably a bug with configure, which a gcc update has triggered.
I've attached a patch.

>      Bash version hasn't been updated for ages so assuming it has to be
> a dependency issue.

My question is why the (admittedly old) gnulib replacement strtod/strtold
is messing things up.

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