Re: [PATCH] do not require dc in gold testsuite

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thursday, December 09, 2010 14:13:24 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> writes:
> > This is a partial reversion of the changes made in
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2010-08/msg00004.html which
> > appear to have been made to improve portability of the hex to decimal
> > conversion.  However, I find the requirement of needing "dc" installed
> > for the test suite to succeed to be excessive.  Instead, implement the
> > conversion in a third way using printf, which should provide the
> > portability without requiring additional software.
> 
> Neither the shell builtin printf nor the printf command are portable to
> all Unix systems.  The dc command is more portable than both.

the shell's math operator supports hex->int as well:
$ echo $(( 0xabcd ))
43981
-mike

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