From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@...>
Date: 2003-04-21T13:04:56+09:00
Subject: dots in hex printf

Hi.  I was wondering why there are dots in printing out a hexadecimal
number: 

  1ecashin@meili linux-2.4.18-kgdb$ perl -e 'printf "%x\n", ~(8192 - 1)'
  ffffe000
  ecashin@meili linux-2.4.18-kgdb$ ruby -e 'printf "%x\n", ~(8192 - 1)'
  ..fe000
  ecashin@meili linux-2.4.18-kgdb$ ruby -e 'printf "%x\n", (~(8192 - 1))'
  ..fe000

.... but it works with the literal number in there.

  ecashin@meili linux-2.4.18-kgdb$ ruby -e 'printf "%x\n", 0xffffe000'
  ffffe000


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