On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jakob Kemi wrote:
>
> I also added three other hex-functions that can replace a lot of duplicated code.
>
> int hexint_nibble (char x); // hex digit to int.
> int hexint_byte (const char *src); // hex digit-pair to int.
> char inthex_nibble (int x); // int to hex digit.
> void inthex_byte (int x, char* dest); // int to hex digit pair.
Is there any reason to do all of this?
I suspect 99% of all users can (and probably should) be replaced with
"sscanf()" instead. Which does a lot more, of course, and is not the
fastest thing out there due to that, but anybody who does hex->int
conversion inside some critical loop is just crazy.
Linus
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