package gawk
retitle 337529 gawk: Default handling of non-decimal data differs from other
awks
severity 337529 minor
tag 337529 wontfix
thanks
Hello,
The conclusion seems to be that gawk can handle hexadecimal data like
mawk and original-awk, but doesn't do so by default. You can use the
following 'portable' workarounds if you want to process hexadecimal
data with awk:
awk -Wnon-decimal-data '...'
awk -Wposix '...'
POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 awk '...'
The first two might produce (harmless) warnings when awk points to
mawk or original-awk. Putting gawk in POSIX mode (the latter two)
changes more than just the handling of non-decimal-data.
Note that gawk (when used as above) and mawk process data with the
format 0[0-7]+ as octa, while original-awk doesn't.
Because of the existing workarounds I'm reducing the severity of this
bug to minor and tagging it as wontfix.
Regards,
--
Jeroen Schot
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