Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:34:40 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: %i conversion in sscanf? Message-ID: <19970615103440.PB32135@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970609223442.26371@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Jun 9, 1997 22:34:42 %2B0200 References: <199706091452.AAA29091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <19970609223442.26371@keltia.freenix.fr>
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > Interesting: > > 244 [22:29] roberto@keltia:~> perl -e 'print 0xABCDEF45 . "\n"' > 2882400069 Hexadecimal constants are always considered unsigned. Garrett recently pointed this out for the C case, and i assume Perl is just doing it similar. Too bad that scanf is not consistent with this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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