Re: [bug-gawk] Overflow to Infinity

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:51:06 -0600
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> Compile the attached gen-float-table.c program and save its output
> to hw-out.txt.  Run the attached gen-table.awk program with the
> latest *released* gawk, and save its output to gawk-out.txt.
> 
> Compare the two .txt files side by side in a diff viewer, such as
> meld on Linux.  Not only is gawk's output different from C's but it
> is also nonsensical in several cases.  This is a direct consequence
> of using the array index ordering routine for scalar comparisons.

Which Gawk results are nonsensical?  Maybe I missed some, but I looked
at most of them, and they do make sense, more than the C results,
actually.

Anyway, if there are nonsensical results, we should try fixing them so
that they do make sense.  But mimicking C is not necessarily the way
to do it.