On 12/6/17 7:35 AM, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: > Checked against: GNU bash, Version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux- > gnu) > > I carefully read the man page and find no definition of the defined > range of integer variables in bash. > see also: `man bash |& grep -i integer`
It's machine-dependent. The documentation guarantees only `fixed-width integers', represented as intmax_t. That gives you the widest range possible on the platform for which your binary was built. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/