Hi, * Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-01-22 15:52:56+0100]: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:50:07PM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > Counter to the documentation for the dash shell, it seems that on my > > x86_64 filth under Debian only does 32bit math. As I have configured my > > POSIX apparently specifies at least "long" type arithmetic for shells, so > if your dash indeed is a 64-bit binary it's in violation of POSIX. > /me points to the 'Counter to the documentation for the dash shell...' he put in his description... > What does > > file $(which $SHELL) > > say? > Well, 'bash' (x86-64) as thats my *interactive* shell, I use dash for the non-interactive stuff. > The dash binary on my Fedora 12 i386 seems to perform 64-bit arithmetic. > ...does it really matter, we still are leaving all the 32bit users out there in the lurch? When I get around to looking at the problem further I'll report it to the Debian folk...meanwhile, builds on 32bit math only shells is broken for vmlinuz regardless of my borkened shell :) Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: We are not anticipating any emergencies.
