bin/155886: bc(1) sometimes mangles hexidecimal numbers

[Stefan Eggers]

The following reply was made to PR bin/155886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stefan Eggers <coloncolonone at googlemail.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, mla_strick at att.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/155886: bc(1) sometimes mangles hexidecimal numbers
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:21:04 +0200

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 This seems to be somewhat similar to Debian Bug 84995 where one can find
 some explanations: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84995
 
 When I append more and more zeros to your example input number, I finally
 get the exact output.  And another thing I noticed is that the output number
 seems to always be shorter than the input number.  Tested this with
 8.2-RELEASE.
 
 Stefan.
 
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 <div><div>This seems to be somewhat similar to Debian Bug 84995 where one c=
 an find some explanations: <a href=3D"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep=
 ort.cgi?bug=3D84995">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D849=
 95</a></div>
 
 <div><br></div><div>When I append more and more zeros to your example input=
  number, I finally get the exact output. =A0And another thing I noticed is =
 that the output number seems to always be shorter than the input number. =
 =A0Tested this with 8.2-RELEASE.</div>
 
 <div><br></div><div>Stefan.</div></div>
 
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