Bug in limits.h (Was: glibc 2.1.96)

[Ben Collins]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 01:42:01AM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > As usual (I must say) the feedback was rare.
> 
> Well, maybe people should produce traffic by re-reporting bugs that
> haven't been fixed...
> 
> In glibc 2.1.96, compiling
> 
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <limits.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   printf("%d\n",LONG_BIT);
> }
> 
> with gcc 2.95.2 on i586-pc-linux-gnu produces a program which prints
> "64"; this is incorrect.

Errm, I had this problem on sparc-linux with 2.1.95, but not 2.1.96. In
fact, this problem has gone away on i386-linux for me too (both using gcc
2.95.2).

[bmc@krikey(7:53pm)-~]%cat temp.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <limits.h>

int main()
{
  printf("%d\n",LONG_BIT);
}
[bmc@krikey(7:53pm)-~]%gcc -o temp temp.c
[bmc@krikey(7:53pm)-~]%./temp
32
[bmc@krikey(7:53pm)-~]%/lib/libc-2.1.96.so | grep 'version'
GNU C Library development release version 2.1.96, by Roland McGrath et al.
Compiled by GNU CC version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux).

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