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Re: Crash on jobs 2^32-2

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Crash on jobs 2^32-2
Date 2018-07-13 09:24 -0400
Message-ID <mailman.3517.1531488237.1292.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 7/13/18 9:17 AM, isabella parakiss wrote:
> but... 4278190079 != 2^32-2...
> anything above 2^31 will do

Anything that causes atoi() to return a negative number due to overflow.

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Re: Crash on jobs 2^32-2 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-07-13 09:24 -0400

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