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Re: crashing bug here with LANG=C printf "%1.1f" 23.2

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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Matthias Kopfermann <matthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: crashing bug here with LANG=C printf "%1.1f" 23.2
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:59:06 +0200
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Matthias Kopfermann wrote:
> 
> for ((i=1;i<100;i+=.01)) ; { LANG=C printf "%1.1f\n" $i ; }
> gives me a segfault instantly here.
> the same can happen when just doing LANG='C' printf "%1.1f\n" 23.2

Seems that can be simplified a bit to get the seg fault. The following
seems to be sufficient:

   zsh -f
   LANG=C echo hello
   LANG=C echo hello

Use of the "LANG" environment variable is significant.

Oliver

References:
- crashing bug here with LANG=C printf "%1.1f\n" 23.2
  - From: Matthias Kopfermann

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