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exp/2196: Wrong arithmetic conversion
- From: abramobagnara at tin dot it
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 8 Nov 2006 09:38:33 -0000
- Subject: exp/2196: Wrong arithmetic conversion
- Reply-to: abramobagnara at tin dot it
>Number: 2196
>Category: exp
>Synopsis: Wrong arithmetic conversion
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 08 09:48:01 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: abramobagnara@tin.it
>Release: unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Evaluating comparison expressions the "usual arithmetic conversions" mandated by C standard are not done.
In the cases below note that GDB returns the mathematically correct result, but this is not conforming to C standard and to GDB documentation that says:
"The usual way to examine data in your program is with the `print'
command (abbreviated `p'), or its synonym `inspect'. It evaluates and
prints the value of an expression of the language your program is
written in"
>How-To-Repeat:
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) print (float)123456792.0 > 123456789
$1 = true
(gdb) print (float)123456792.0 > (float)123456789
$2 = false
(gdb) print 123456789123456784.0 == 123456789123456789LL
$3 = false
(gdb) print 123456789123456784.0 == (double)123456789123456789LL
$4 = true
>Fix:
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