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<lang awk>$ uname -a

NetBSD sdf 8.0_RC1 NetBSD 8.0_RC1 (GENERIC) #6: Thu Apr 26 07:48:08 EDT 2018 christos@sixthavenue.astron.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

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$ awk 'BEGIN { print strtonum("0x1f") }'

Ok, GNU utilities are known to get bloated by tons of features until they are capable of doing everything except making coffee but in this case GAWK seems to have done a step away from MAWK and NetBSD's AWK. From the original AWK too? How does the oldest AWK you can get your hands on behave for...

<lang awk>$ awk 'BEGIN { print "0x1f"+0 }'</lang>