awk accepts but blows unary negation

Steve Schlaifer x3171 156/224 steve at jplgodo.UUCP
Wed Mar 19 04:16:03 AEST 1986


In article <179 at desint.UUCP>, geoff at desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
> Talk about confusing me!  Try this one on your system:
> 
> 	echo 15 | awk '{t1=-15;t2=15;t3=-t2;t4=-$1;print t1,t3,t4}'
> 
> On my system (Unisoft V.0) it produces:
> 
> 	-2.71875 -2.71875 -2.71875
> 
> The expression "t1=0-15" works correctly.

On my Ridge 32C running ROS 3.3, I get -15 -15 -15.  Looks like you have a bug.
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