Created attachment 9376 [details] awk-bitwiseop-fix-arch64.patch Hi there! While working on a small awk program in an arm64 I found that bitwise operations are broken when operating with large numbers. Looking under the hood I found that awk numbers are doubles[1], whereas bitwise operations are performed over unsigned longs[2]. The problem: - double is typically 2^53 - unsigned long is 2^32 in 32bit archs - unsigned long is typically 2^64 in 64bit archs So, the result of a unsigned long bitwise operation is stored on a double This means that data is lost in 64bit archs that use 64bit unsigned longs when the result is greater than 2^53. For example, operating with a simple compl(0) on an arm64 or x64 Linux generates unexpected results: awk 'BEGIN{print compl(0)%4}' It returns 0 instead of 3. But it works on GNU Awk, why? Well, apparently all gawk bitwise operations return the result of a function called make_integer[3] which in turn calls another function that fixes the issue I described above: adjust_uint[4]. adjust_uint basically truncates sizes greater than 2^53 (like 2^64 unsigned long) to 2^53 from the left, preserving low order bits. So I went ahead and shamelessly copied adjust_uint into Busybox Awk and it worked! And here I am submitting a patch with the changes adapted to Busybox :) This adaptation includes: - Replacing uintmax_t with unsigned long on adjust_uint and the count_trailing_zeros helper, as the result of bitwise operations on Busybox is unsigned long - Replacing GCC __builtin_ctzll (unsigned long long) with GCC __builtin_ctzl (unsigned long) - Including float.h for the FLT_RADIX macro - Removing some macros that adapt adjust_uint when gawk numbers are long doubles in some platforms - Renaming some macros and their mention in the original gawk comments Cheers, Carlos [1] - https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/editors/awk.c?id=c8c1fcdba163f264a503380bc63485aacd09214c#n123 [2] - https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/editors/awk.c?id=c8c1fcdba163f264a503380bc63485aacd09214c#n1048 [3] - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/builtin.c?id=d434cb3ce61e0cc5e26180da914f1a58223897a2#n3565 [4] - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/floatcomp.c?id=d434cb3ce61e0cc5e26180da914f1a58223897a2#n91