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Re: Signedness bug in eval


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Signedness bug in eval
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:56:44 -0600
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According to Peter Clifton on 5/24/2007 2:38 PM:

Hi Peter,

> The change in behaviour is maths with eval(..)
> 
> Thanks for looking into this - hopefully if a fix is released, the
> change will get picked up by distros quickly - as this breaks our (and
> probably other) applications,

Known regression, and the patch is here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2007-04/msg00052.html

Let me know if you need an off-list pointer to a 1.4.9a snapshot which
will become 1.4.10 once the synclines issue reported today is resolved.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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