Re: printf %(fmt)T fails with large times in 64-bit linux.

2012-09-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/17/12 4:33 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > printf %(fmt)T fails when the time given is very large in a 64-bit linux > environment. Looping over the powers of two and feeding it to printf shows > the error, which exits the shell with a SIGSEGV Thanks for the report. -- ``The lyf so

printf %(fmt)T fails with large times in 64-bit linux.

2012-09-17 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
printf %(fmt)T fails when the time given is very large in a 64-bit linux environment. Looping over the powers of two and feeding it to printf shows the error, which exits the shell with a SIGSEGV The problem seems to be in builtins/printf.def, as indicated by the backtrace attached (gdb.txt). --