Re: [Fwd: [PATCH] arithmetic -> logical shift]

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Pádraig Brady wrote: Also arithmetic right shift is not useful. While SAR (shift arithmetic right) is technically redundant with IDIV (integer divide), it's important in C programming where it is often used as an optimized special case of the latter. While this may not be especially importan

Re: set0 builtin

2008-10-27 Thread Chet Ramey
Masatake YAMATO wrote: > To improve bashdb, a bash debugger, we submitted two patches to bash, > adding readfile builtin and removing bashdb.el ever. I hope you don't > forget it:) > > We would like submit one more patch, adding set0 builtin. I would rather see this as a loadable builtin. mapfi

lost output from asynchronous lists

2008-10-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello bug-bash readers, in Autoconf, we've stumbled over a problem that has us a bit lost. More precisely, it's output from asynchronous lists that gets lost somewhere. I can't say whether it's due to the shell (it happens with bash, pdksh, zsh, dash), due to the operating system (seen on GNU/Lin