[Toybox] dd.test spaces in numbers?

enh enh at google.com
Wed Jul 27 08:23:38 PDT 2016


both BSD and GNU dd ignore leading whitespace, which is why i didn't
simplify that when i was adding hex support (which only GNU has). but i
don't know whether anyone is relying on this.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Does anybody know why tests/dd.test is checking for spaces before
> numbers? ('count= 2' on line 15, for example?)
>
> Was this an issue for somebody? Is it in a spec somewhere? Why is this a
> behavior that needs to be preserved in a new implementation?
>
> Just wondering where that came from,
>
> Rob
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