Package: gforth Version: 0.6.2-7.3 Severity: normal
*** gforth.bug Subject: gforth: number input conversion sees isolated "-" as valid number Package: gforth Version: 0.6.2-7.3 Severity: normal discovered when the Forth vocabulary (which contains "-") was taken out of search order, and a vocabulary for an assembly translator was created: "-" was to become a legal word in translator vocabulary, but gforth should balk when yet undefined words were used. For that reason was the Forth vocabulary removed from search order. The translator consequently complained nicely about missing words, when attempting to use them, such as +, but produced garbage instead of error when trying to use "-". Reason of problem was found that an isolated "-" was interpreted as valid number, and was converted to "0" and pushed on stack. As an isolated "-" character doesn't strike me as a legal number, I view this as undesirable behaviour. it's a bug, not a feature :P -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gforth depends on: hi libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries gforth recommends no packages. gforth suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
