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. BruceReceived on Fri Sep 05 2003 - 00:35:23 UTC
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