The gawk command in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 may not convert hexadecimal values properly

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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
11259375

    The first value ("0") is incorrect.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • gawk-3.1.3-10.1

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