Re: [bug-gawk] Invalid result when converting to hex literal

[Arnold Robbins]

I wrote:

> Harumph.  I think the standard used to be more explicit about which
> specifiers were required in awk and which not, but I may be wrong.
>
> So indeed, basic language lawyering leads us to undertstand that POSIX
> wants %a in awk.
>
> At the moment, I don't think any awk implements this.  Additionally,
> it is problematic to do so on some older-but-still-supported platforms,
> since this requires support in the underlying C library that may
> be missing.
>
> I will have to think about this.

I have implemented and documented %a and %A support. It's now pushed
out to the git repo.

C99 floating point hex constants will have to wait for another day.

Thanks,

Arnold