On 29 Dec 2019, at 0:10, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:46:52PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >> >> What if the user wants to factor a hexadecimal value which does not >> happen to include [a...f]? >> >> How about recognizing a prefix of '0x' as a way to indicate the value >> is hexadecimal? > > An interested user will need to add that support. AFAIK, factor(6) > has never recognized the 0x prefix, and I'm not trying to add new > features. I'm simply fixing factor(6) to match its documentation, > and trying to ensure WITH_OPENSSL and WITHOUT_OPENSSL give the > same results where applicable.
Well, I'd be willing to do the work to add the new feature, and also make the commit. It'd be a nice easy task for me to tackle... :) But I think documenting that "hex works, but only for hex values which have at least one A-F in the value" is not something that I'd want to draw attention to via documentation. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = dro...@rpi.edu or g...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
