(cid 100487B467E068A55D6 and 10048949D196A7C1390) discovered
by Jb_boin: time with a not-TCOM subtree would now trash its
string argument (which is the loop variable for TFOR); amend
regression testsuite
prerequisites are actually fulfilled, i.e. evrn further down than with
the last commit doing this, and move some prerequisites of stuff that
has wandered outside the !INCLUDES_ONLY block with the compile-time
assert changes to the outside, too
fixes FTBFS on MSYS which has neither <stdint.h> nor uint32_t
reported by RT
to address LP: #906914 (if your history file is corrupt or you
reach the end of HISTLINES, you’re still SOL)
quadruple the standard value for HISTSIZE to help users avoid it;
it’s much better to set it yourself if using persistent history
though; half it on MKSH_SMALL though which defaults to not use it
anyway
also fix handling of larger files a bit and limit the size until
which the files are considered (currently to 96 MiB) until such
time as mmap will no longer be employed to deal in them when the
offending code has been replaced by a rewrite…
handle any more, octal 010 style constants, as promised
• overhaul the manpage re. arithmetic expressions, make the guarantees
mksh code has explicitly, precisely, clear
• to reduce burden of the compiler, getint() now operates on mksh_uari_t
internally; it already applied the sign after operation, anyway (C99
guarantees wraparound on unsigned types, but for signed types we need
specific compiler support; apparently, this comes from hardware limits)
• use const and shuffle order of locals around while here
• integer base flat (10, 010, 0x10)
‣ posix, right variants (heh, just like timezones)
⇒ both enabled, which means one test always fails right now,
until the code changes are in…
☹ mksh R21 and up, AT&T ksh93, posh, GNU bash, busybox sh, dash
all use the posux variant
☺ mksh R20b and below, pdksh, zsh, python, perl, php all do it right
‣ posix is stupid to use C (strongly typed, compiled) semantics
for an untyped _scripting_ language
• integer bases 1 (mksh specific), 2 to 36, and that 37 errors out
‣ both directions
• integer arithmetic, signed and unsigned, wraparound and value span
tg