Re: test -lt inconsistent about white space

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-10-29 03:18, Oğuz wrote:
> I think the intented behavior was skipping both leading and trailing 
> horizontal whitespace, which makes sense as a QOL feature, and switching 
> over to strtoimax changed this.

If that's the intent, which is self-consistent but which disagrees with 
all other shells we know about, then a patch differing from what I 
submitted should be applied. The patch I sent makes Bash self-consistent 
in a different way, one that is compatible with ksh and Dash. Although I 
would vote for the latter on compatibility grounds, the former is at 
least self-consistent.


> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/test.c?id=726f63884db0132f01745f1fb4465e6621088ccf#n354

That old code is obviously wrong as it has undefined behavior on integer 
overflow. So we shouldn't simply revert to it, of course.