[1483] in Athena Bugs
(RT and VAX) Version 6.0R: awk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Tue Dec 6 20:00:09 1988
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 88 19:59:16 EST
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (RT and VAX) Version 6.0R
System name: any I've tried
What's wrong:
awk 'BEGIN { printf "%d\n", 16777217; }' /dev/null
prints "16777216" on the RT and "16777218" on the VAX.
What should have happened:
It should print 16777217.
[There may be no easy fix; the number may be stored internally as a
float with ~24 bits of mantissa.]
- Bill
