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Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal
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arnold |
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Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal |
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Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:50:44 -0600 |
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Steven Penny <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> > It seems to me that hexadecimal floating point values are still not
> > correctly supported in gawk, even though the manual suggests that they
> > SHOULD BE when the --non-decimal-data option is supplied.
>
> I agree with this. another known POSIX violation is that Gawk does not
> Currently support the "%a" conversion specifier:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/41917046/a-conversion-specifier-not-recognized
POSIX doesn't require awk to support %a. If you think it does,
please cite chapter and verse.
Nelson's mail is full of misassumptions and plain out mistakes, some of which
he should know better. :-) I will answer it tomorrow when I'm more awake.
Thanks,
Arnold
- [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, Steven Penny, 2018/03/20
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, arnold, 2018/03/20
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, arnold, 2018/03/20
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, Nelson H. F. Beebe, 2018/03/20
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, Steven Penny, 2018/03/20
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal,
arnold <=
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, Steven Penny, 2018/03/20
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, arnold, 2018/03/21
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, Nelson H. F. Beebe, 2018/03/21
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, arnold, 2018/03/22
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, Arnold Robbins, 2018/03/22
- Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal, arnold, 2018/03/21