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).
--
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
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 06:12:24PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I don't know so I will ask. Isn't the problem endemic to glibc? Do
> other libc's such as HP-UX or AIX or other have this same issue? I am
> out of touch on the details of them these days.
imadev:/tmp/greg$ uname -a
HP-UX imadev B.10
