Re: [bug-gawk] Handling hexadecimals in different modes

[Jarno Suni]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:34:12 -0600
address@hidden wrote:

> Jarno Suni <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Then it would work the same way as other awk implementations I have
> > tested (i.e. mawk and original-awk in Ubuntu Linux).
> 
> This is accidental, since those versions just call strtod and GLIBC
> strtod handles hex values.  This is discussed somewhat in the gawk
> doc.  The upshot is that you cannot rely on that behavior on non-GLIBC
> systems.

Where in the doc?

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