[Nickle] Nickle compiler bug

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Sep 16 18:17:47 PDT 2004


Around 10 o'clock on Sep 16, bart at po8.org wrote:

> Take a look at the just-checked-in
> examples/google-puzzle.5c.  It outputs an even answer :-),

Note that the output number has a leading zero, causing 'atoi' to 
interpret it in octal.

I fixed it.  Now it outputs an odd number, but not the right one.  Given 
the small values involved, checking actual primality works just fine and 
does generate the right answer.

-keith


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