[ksh93-integration-discuss] Minimum and maximum values for integervariables?

[Roland Mainz]

Robert Neville wrote:
> 
> How can I get the minimum and maximum values for integer variables? Is
> there a counterpart to limits.h to get these values?

See David Korns answers...
... one (long-term) idea may be to add special values to the "getconf"
builtin to define the minimum and maximum values for "integer", "float",
the maximum number of array entries and other shell-related limits...

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Bye,
Roland

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