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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-05-27 20:31:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-05-27 20:31:59 +0000 |
| commit | 08338cd87f7813aaf954a49b0ec54f2c2a874dc9 (patch) | |
| tree | d3108ad7fccc1775cf8a9da5e4925e3a21891cee /NEWS | |
| parent | 3a662c37cd0161543a54e4d5eaa44f0b03417952 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-08338cd87f7813aaf954a49b0ec54f2c2a874dc9.tar.xz | |
expr and test now correctly compare integers of unlimited size.
(Also, correct a comment that claimed that expr detects integer
overflow; it does so only when converting from strings.)
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- time-of-day is changed while dd is running. Also, it avoids using unsafe code in signal handlers; this fixes some core dumps. - expr now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers, + expr and test now correctly compare integers of unlimited magnitude. + + expr now detects integer overflow when converting strings to integers, rather than silently wrapping around. ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to @@ -118,9 +120,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does. - test now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers, - rather than silently wrapping around. - ** Improved portability nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO. |