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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-06-07 05:52:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-06-07 05:52:07 +0000 |
| commit | 0038f24b9ac50c6b7888fabc89e7c6096a200056 (patch) | |
| tree | bc891ddfe252f850ff8ee0a99f5bbd1f7c084338 | |
| parent | 8ef928100bfa94aa20a24cc858f9811134460060 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0038f24b9ac50c6b7888fabc89e7c6096a200056.tar.xz | |
The 'expr' command now detects and reports integer overflow.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- (the anchor is ignored), or about regular expressions like A** (the second "*" is ignored). expr now exits with status 2 (not 3) for errors it detects in the expression's values; exit status 3 is now - used only for internal errors like arithmetic overflow. + used only for internal errors (such as integer overflow, which expr + now checks for). ln now uses different (and we hope clearer) diagnostics when it fails. ln -v now acts more like FreeBSD, so it generates output only when |