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arithmetic: Fix the octal leading zero mess (#337)
In C/POSIX arithmetic, a leading 0 denotes an octal number, e.g.
010 == 8. But this is not a desirable feature as it can cause
problems with processing things like dates with a leading zero.
In ksh, you should use 8#10 instead ("10" with base 8).
It would be tolerable if ksh at least implemented it consistently.
But AT&T made an incredible mess of it. For anyone who is not
intimately familiar with ksh internals, it is inscrutable where
arithmetic evaluation special-cases a leading 0 and where it
doesn't. Here are just some of the surprises/inconsistencies:
1. The AT&T maintainers tried to honour a leading 0 inside of
((...)) and $((...)) and not for arithmetic contexts outside it,
but even that inconsistency was never quite consistent.
2. Since 2010-12-12, $((x)) and $(($x)) are different:
$ /bin/ksh -c 'x=010; echo $((x)) $(($x))'
10 8
That's a clear violation of both POSIX and the principle of
least astonishment. $((x)) and $(($x)) should be the same in
all cases.
3. 'let' with '-o letoctal' acts in this bizarre way:
$ set -o letoctal; x=010; let "y1=$x" "y2=010"; echo $y1 $y2
10 8
That's right, 'let y=$x' is different from 'let y=010' even
when $x contains the same string value '010'! This violates
established shell grammar on the most basic level.
This commit introduces consistency. By default, ksh now acts like
mksh and zsh: the octal leading zero is disabled in all arithmetic
contexts equally. In POSIX mode, it is enabled equally.
The one exception is the 'let' built-in, where this can still be
controlled independently with the letoctal option as before (but,
because letoctal is synched with posix when switching that on/off,
it's consistent by default).
We're also removing the hackery that causes variable expansions for
the 'let' builtin to be quietly altered, so that 'x=010; let y=$x'
now does the same as 'let y=010' even with letoctal on.
Various files:
- Get rid of now-redundant sh.inarith (shp->inarith) flag, as we're
no longer distinguishing between being inside or outside ((...)).
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/arith.c:
- arith(): Let disabling POSIX octal constants by skipping leading
zeros depend on either the letoctal option being off (if we're
running the "let" built-in") or the posix option being off.
- sh_strnum(): Preset a base of 10 for strtonll(3) depending on the
posix or letoctal option being off, not on the sh.inarith flag.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/argnod.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/args.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c:
- Remove astonishing hackery that violated shell grammar for 'let'.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c (nv_getnum()),
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/nvdisc.c (nv_getn()):
- Remove loops for skipping leading zeroes that included a broken
check for justify/zerofill attributes, thereby fixing this bug:
$ typeset -Z x=0x15; echo $((x))
-ksh: x15: parameter not set
Even if this code wasn't redundant before, it is now: sh_arith()
is called immediately after the removed code and it ignores
leading zeroes via sh_strnum() and strtonll(3).
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/334
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char used_pos; /* used positional parameter */\
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char universe; \
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char winch; \
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char inarith; /* set when in POSIX arith context, i.e. leading zero = octal, e.g. in ((...)) */ \
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short arithrecursion; /* current arithmetic recursion level */ \
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char indebug; /* set when in debug trap */ \
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unsigned char ignsig; /* ignored signal in subshell */ \
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