Re: $((expr)) allows the hexadecimal constant "0x"

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024, at 4:43 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/9/24 11:23 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
>> The words “Integer constants follow the C language 
>> definition, without suffixes or character constants” were not added to the 
>> manual until June 2019 in the Devel branch (as commit 
>> 48492ffae22d692594757e53fb4580ebb1f506cf), and did not land in the Master 
>> branch until December 2020 (as commit 
>> 8868edaf2250e09c4e9a1c75ffe3274f28f38581).
>
> [...]
>
>> Ubuntu LTS users would then have 
>> first had a chance to read them in April 2022.
>
> That seems like an Ubuntu problem. I understand they have to lag -- the
> aforementioned RHEL 7 issue is just the worst example of vendors shipping
> old releases -- but 16 months seems like a pretty big gap. I don't use
> Ubuntu, but I figure they make releases more often than that.

LTS releases drop every two years, with interim releases every six
months in between.

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

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vq