Re: seq: revert Solaris 8 work-around that caused x86 regression

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0
> 
> --- out 2008-10-25
> +++ exp 2008-10-25
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -18446744073709551615
> +9223372036854775807
>  9223372036854775808
> 
> 
> FreeBSD i386-unknown-freebsd6.1
> 
> + diff -u out exp
> --- out 2008-10-25
> +++ exp 2008-10-25
> @@ -1,1026 +1,2 @@
>  9223372036854775807
>  9223372036854775808
> -9223372036854775808
> -9223372036854775808
> ...
> -9223372036854775808
> -9223372036854775808
> 
> While neither is new and both should be addressed,
> fixing corner cases like these is not high priority for me.
> 
> Obviously, using gmp here (like in expr and factor) would solve
> this nicely.
> 
> So either the sizeof test is insufficient, or
> there are other bugs (I suspect the latter).

Me too. Some compromises with the new approaches were mentioned:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-06/msg00202.html

> For now, I may just sweep this under the rug
> and skip the test on systems without glibc.

That's fine I think.
Running `seq` at floating point limits is certainly not common.

Pádraig.