gawk printf format problem with negative numbers

[Shaffer, Kenneth]

I expected the output of a negative 1234 in hex to look like 0xfffffb2e:

 

> echo |gawk '{n = -1234; printf("0x%x\n",n+0)}'
0x-1234

> gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.3

 

running under cygwin for the PC.

 

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