Re: Bash bug with ints beyond 2147483646

[Jan Schampera]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:48:49PM -0400, Pete Gregory wrote:
> > echo {2147483640..2147483647}
> > dies with a malloc error
>
> In bash 4.1.9 under HP-UX 10.20, it consumes all available CPU until
> I kill it with SIGKILL.  (I suppose there's a chance it might eventually
> have died due to malloc errors or whatever, but after several minutes
> of waiting, I got impatient.)

Maybe as an additional hint for Chets debugging: In 3.2.39(1)-release it 
works, in 4.1.2(1)-release it fails (yes, Bonsai just came back from 
paging...). It drives crazy and mallocs like hell... 32bit int overflow?


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