[Issue 1219] long.max.stringof gets corrupted

[Don Clugston]

d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1219
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> ------- Comment #1 from fvbommel at wxs.nl  2007-05-07 09:42 -------
> Another interesting case, likely related:
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> import std.stdio;
> import std.string;
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> void main() {
>     writefln(long.max.stringof);
>     writefln(ulong.max.stringof);
> }
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> The first three bytes of long.max.stringof seem to be overwritten by "-1\0".
> ulong.max.stringof is incorrectly displayed as "-1".
> If you change the order, the first three characters of long.max.stringof
> overwrite the characters of ulong.max.stringof (including the trailing \0).

I've seen similar things, and I think it is related to the ".". It can 
happen to floating-point numbers as well, when they contain a decimal point.