On 08/18/2011 03:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
Oops I meant %H. Even though a capital I discounted it as there are others used: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/format_specs.html > 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 > I'd agree that's a bug. I also notice that neither solaris or freebsd support %h cheers, Pádraig.
