Gawk - problem with hexadecimal numbers

[Pierrik . Vuilleumier]

Dear GNU,
      I have some problems with the strtonum() gawk function with hexadecimal
numbers.  After a number of trials, the problem narrows down to the presence
of the digit "e" in the number.  The small example below shows that it is not
recognised while the other digits work OK.  The same happens with a longer
hex number when it contains a "e".
Could there be some confusion with the "e" marking the exponent in floating
numbers ?

Thank's for your help.

Regards,
            Pierrik Vuilleumier



The problem =======================
echo 0xf | awk '{print strtonum($1)}'
15
echo 0xe | awk '{print strtonum($1)}'
0

The gawk version =========================
/usr/bin> gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.4
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/usr/bin> ldd -r gawk
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40030000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40035000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40058000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.3 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


The SusE 9.3  platform =================================
/usr/bin> uname -a
Linux proba-ips 2.6.8-24.19-smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:32:45 UTC 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux