Re: bin/24014 (fmt's ispref() steps only its first variable, leading to wrong results.)

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/24014; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/24014 (fmt's ispref() steps only its first variable, leading 
to wrong results.)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:13:13 -0400

 On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:47:33AM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: fmt's ispref() steps only its first variable, leading to wrong 
 > results.
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: suspended->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:47:33 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > What's the state of this nowadays?
 
 Everything claimed broken in the PR still is. Probably part of my old patches, 
too,
 although they seemed to improve the situation back then, obviously. I probably 
should
 do something about this, finally, after all the years (sigh), like, polish the 
patches
 once more, offer regression tests etc.
 
 For now, something copy-paste'able that might become a regression test 
somewhen:
 
 # I'm using ksh here
 100blas() { for i in $(jot 100 1) ; do printf "bla " ; done ; echo ;}
 
 # 1. fmt -C is broken
 100blas > fmt-input1
 fmt 10 15 < fmt-input1
 fmt -C 10 15 < fmt-input1 
 
 # 2. fmt for formatting mails is broken
 touch fmt-input2
 echo "From myself" >> fmt-input2
 echo "To: $(100blas)" >> fmt-input2
 echo "Subject: $(100blas)" >> fmt-input2
 echo "Cc: $(100blas)" >> fmt-input2
 echo "Reply-To: $(100blas)" >> fmt-input2
 fmt < fmt-input2 
 
 Regards,
 -Martin