Re: [gawk] type conversion error ascii (hex) to integer

[Aharon Robbins]

Just for the record, the gawk maintainer disagrees, violently, that
POSIX requires support for hexadecimal constants.

I too have expressed my opinion on this matter, and it disagrees with Paul's.

As I'm sure what I've said can be found in the mailing list archives, I
am not going to reopen the discussion.

Arnold

> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:01:56 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [gawk] type conversion error ascii (hex) to integer
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Lee Howard <address@hidden>
>
> Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > POSIX prohibits hexadecimal numbers even in program code.
>
> No, actually POSIX 1003.1-2001 and later requires support for
> hexadecimal constants in program code and in data (in some cases).
> But support for this is spotty, to say the least.  I reported this
> problem to the gawk maintainer and to the Open Group in -- let me see
> -- May of last year, but they're still mulling over what to do.  See
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/xcubug2.txt
>
> and look for "hexadecimal".