[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-3572727 ] lsort -integer does not like 64-bit ints

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Bugs item #3572727, was opened at 2012-09-28 04:24
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Category: 17. Commands I-L
Group: development: 8.6b3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Ashok P. Nadkarni (apnadkarni)
Assigned to: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Summary: lsort -integer does not like 64-bit ints

Initial Comment:
% lsort -integer {0x1ffffffff 3 4}
integer value too large to represent

An old (2000) bug 218988 exists for this but is marked fixed and closed.

Happens on 8.6b3 and 8.5.11.

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>Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Date: 2012-09-28 05:56

Message:
Agreed as well; IIRC, we're currently assuming that they fit in a 'long'
and that's wrong these days (and this was probably just an oversight when
bignum support was added).

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Comment By: Peter Spjuth (pspjuth)
Date: 2012-09-28 05:44

Message:
Note that bug 218988 was about handling 64 bit integers on 64 bit compiles.

I do agree that lsort -integer should handle bignums transparently.


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