On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 15:52 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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. What > does > > file $(which $SHELL) > > say? > > The dash binary on my Fedora 12 i386 seems to perform 64-bit arithmetic. > Hi, Ralf on my yeeloong laptop, with dash(0.5.5.1-3) in o32 ABI, it also can only execute 32-bit numbers, but on my thinkpad SL400(i686, dash version is 0.5.5.1-2), it works well with 64-bit arithmetic. So, it means dash not always works normally, perhaps there is a bug there, or the bug only exists on MIPS machines? Best Regards, Wu Zhangjin
