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Date:      Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:34:42 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: %i conversion in sscanf?
Message-ID:  <19970609223442.26371@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199706091452.AAA29091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 12:22:20AM %2B0930
References:  <199706091452.AAA29091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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According to Michael Smith:
> It's "fairly" clear that %i might be expected to convert 0xABCDEF45
> to a negative number - Tcl thinks that way :
> 
> silver:/tmp>tclsh
> % expr 0xABCDEF45
> -1412567227

Interesting:

244 [22:29] roberto@keltia:~> perl -e 'print 0xABCDEF45 . "\n"'
2882400069

Perl 5.004 
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #18: Sun Jun  8 15:32:28 CEST 1997



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