From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 9 13:48:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13960 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13932 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA03912 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:48:04 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA03987 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:47:52 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id WAA05291; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:34:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970609223442.26371@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:34:42 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: %i conversion in sscanf? References: <199706091452.AAA29091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: <199706091452.AAA29091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 12:22:20AM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3359 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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