The gawk command in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 may not convert hexadecimal values properly
Issue
- gawk 3.1.3 functionality incorrect
- Passing hexadecimal values through the "-v" option to gawk may generate incorrect results. For example:
echo 0xABCDEF | awk -vVAL="0x1234" '{value=VAL; print strtonum(value); value=$1; print strtonum(value); }' 0 11259375The first value ("0") is incorrect.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- gawk-3.1.3-10.1
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