On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 11:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Norihiro Tanaka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, but it seem that it is also unportable. On Solaris 10 and AIX 7, >> below. Need Gawk for tests? >> >> $ awk 'BEGIN { printf "\x41" }' </dev/null >> \x41 > > If you use octal it should work with any awk.
Thanks, but octal would also work with printf. My only reason to use awk was because I thought (wrongly) that it could portably handle that use of hex constants. The trouble was that I have a strong preference for using hex constants in the tests. With the updated patch I sent today, the problem is resolved.
