On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:53:28PM +0100, Philipp Tomsich wrote:
On 08.03.2019, at 18:28, Martin Husemann martin@NetBSD.org wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 12:17:09PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
OK, so a few thoughts here.
- What's the portable way to do hex-based math? If we really need it?
Use printf(3) to convert to/from hex, and standard shell arithmetic with $(( )).
Looks horrible, but something like:
v=$(( $( printf "%d\n" 0xa0 ) + $( printf "%d\n" 0x10 ) )) printf "v = %d (%x)\n" $v $v
Can we just assume that awk is available? After all, AWK is defined in the top-level Makefile...
No, we can't exactly. In sum, gawk and mawk behave differently and mawk doesn't do hex and yes, we run into that in the wild. Whatever we do here needs to be POSIX shell happy (or something more strict than that?) as it needs to work on macOS and Free/Net/OpenBSD and anything else that we can otherwise be building on.