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@result{}2.0
@end example
+@ignore
+@comment Expose a crash with a bad format string fixed in 1.4.15.
+@comment Unfortunately, 8-bit bytes are hard to check for; but the
+@comment exit status is enough to sniff the crash in broken versions.
+
+@comment xerr: ignore
+@example
+format(`%'format(`%c', `128'))
+@result{}
+@end example
+@end ignore
+
@node Arithmetic
@chapter Macros for doing arithmetic