From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:54:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] git-p4 tests: refactor and cleanup
Message-ID: <201110161154.11898.stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201110161138.58396.stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

OK, I have to partially correct myself here ...

On Sunday 16 October 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>
> This won't work with older versions of the Almquist shell (without
> prepending `testid' and `git_p4_test_start' with a `$', that is):
> 
>   $ ash-0.5.2 -c 'a=4; b=2; echo $(( 1 + (a - b) ))'
>   ash-0.5.2: arith: syntax error: " 1 + (a - b) "
> 
OTOH, this behaviour seems in contrast with the POSIX standard, which
says that:

  ``If the shell variable x contains a value that forms a valid integer
    constant, then the arithmetic expansions "$((x))" and "$(($x))" shall
    return the same value.''

Reference:
 <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_04>

So, since the git testsuite explicitly requires a POSIX shell, there is
probably nothing to fix here.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano