From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] MIPS: fix vmlinuz build for 32bit-only math shells
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:52:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100122145256.GA5570@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vs6k27-7b2.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu>
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.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-22 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-20 20:50 [PATCHv2] MIPS: fix vmlinuz build for 32bit-only math shells Alexander Clouter
2010-01-21 5:23 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-01-22 14:52 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2010-01-22 21:39 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-01-23 11:56 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-01-26 12:44 ` Ralf Baechle
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