Re: [bug-gawk] gawk erroneous comparison with large negative exponents

[Aharon Robbins]

> Regarding gawk, this does raise the question of whether node.c:r_force_number
> should force the numeric value to zero when strtod sets errno.

I think it should.

Andy, do you want to do that in the stable branch and see if anything
breaks in the test suite?  If that's OK, please push, merge to master,
and push that as well.  I've done enough beating on gawk for one day...

Thanks,

Arnold