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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:34:39PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, I wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > If some values are unrepresentable then they need to be represtended
> > using other values.  E.g., add 1 to avoid 0, or multiply by the alignment
> > size if some element of the tool chanin instsists on rounding up things
>                                    chain  insists
> > for alignment like a broken aout version used to do.  16-bit values
> > would need 17 bits to represent after adding 1.
> 
> Better, add 0x10000 to avoid 0.  awk has no support for parsing hex numbers
> so subtracting the bias of 1 would take a lot more code, but ignoring
> leading hexdigits requires no changes in genassym.sh -- it already ignores
> everything except the last 4 hexdigits.
> 

This works, too. Thanks for the detailed explanation Bruce!