Bug 74662

Summary: Large integers print in %e format even though %d format specified
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: jwitford
Component: gawkAssignee: Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description jwitford 2002-09-30 03:33:02 UTC 
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Description of problem:
BEGIN{
    printf "%d\n", int(5093500000))
}

produces output of "5.0935e+09"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run rhis:  awk 'BEGIN{printf("%d\n", 5093500000)}'
2.look at output
3.have another look at output because it is so weird.


Actual Results:  Output is "5.0935e+09".

 Hey! That isn't an integer!!


Expected Results:  5093500000


Additional info:

Also get same result with sprintf.
Even if you cast the value with int() get the same result.
Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2003-04-15 08:55:02 UTC 
Copy of some google search on this:

Because gawk's
OFMT default is "%.6g"
change it: OFMT="%.17g" 
Or use printf 
gawk 'END {printf "%.10g\n", 4294967296 + 4294967296}' < /dev/null


Closing this now,

Florian La Roche