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[Mantas Kriaučiūnas <mantas@xxxxxx>]

mawk in Ubuntu and Debian is 18 years, see LP bug #1332114
I think this bug should be marked as duplicate of bug #1332114
Many bugs of Mawk are fixed in a new upstream versions 1.3.4-2010nnnn-2015nnnn, but the Debian maintainer does not want to update for an obscure reason.
We need to push here: http://bugs.debian.org/554167

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #554167
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167

** Also affects: mawk (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1159933

Title:
  mawk %d maxes out at 0x7FFFFFFF instead of 0xFFFFFFFF

Status in mawk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in mawk package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  I'm honestly not sure if this is a bug or just an implementation
  decision, but it's different than gawk or original-awk, so I'm
  reporting it.  This caused problems for coreboot which is using awk to
  calculate addresses up at the 0xFFFXXXXX range.  We worked around it
  by using %.0f to print the values.

  using the test:
     printf %u 0xFFFFFFFF | awk '{printf("%.0f %u %d", $1 , $1 , $1  )}'

  mawk:
      4294967295 2147483647 2147483647

  original-awk:
      4294967295 2147483648 4294967295

  gawk:
      4294967295 4294967295 4294967295

  I'm using ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS, and mawk 1.3.3-17.

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