On 08/18/2011 08:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Perhaps a printf format spec? %h is available,
No it's not. printf %hx prints a short int, printf %hhx prints a char as an int.
Meanwhile, although both the bash builtin and coreutils' printf parse these two formats, they actually still end up widening to int before printing; arguably a bug:
$ printf %hhx -1 ffffffffffffffff $ echo 'format(%hx,-1)' | m4 ff -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
