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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
+ *
+ * Numerical functions.
+ * NOTE: randomness was moved to rand.c
+ */
+
+/*
+TODO: properly handle errno in this file
+ */
+
+#ifdef __OpenBSD__
+#include <sys/param.h>
+#endif
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#if !((defined(__OpenBSD__) && (OpenBSD) >= 201) || \
+    defined(__FreeBSD__) || \
+    defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__))
+#include <fcntl.h> /* if not arc4random: /dev/urandom */
+#endif
+#include <limits.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "../include/common.h"
+
+/* TODO:
+ * make this and errno handling more
+ * flexible
+
+  in particular:
+  hextonum could be modified to
+  write into a buffer instead,
+  with the converted numbers,
+  of an arbitrary length
+ */
+unsigned short
+hextonum(char ch_s)
+{
+	int saved_errno = errno;
+
+	/* rlong() can return error,
+	   but preserves errno if no
+	   error. we need to detect
+	   this because it handles
+	   /dev/urandom sometimes
+
+	   therefore, if it's zero
+	   at start, we know if there
+	   was an err at the end, by
+	   return value zero, if errno
+	   was set; this is technically
+	   valid, since zero is also
+	   a valid random number!
+
+	it's an edge case that i had
+	to fix. i'll rewrite the code
+	better later. for now, it
+	should be ok.
+	 */
+	errno = 0;
+
+	unsigned char ch;
+	size_t rval;
+
+	ch = (unsigned char)ch_s;
+
+	if ((unsigned int)(ch - '0') <= 9) {
+
+		rval = ch - '0';
+		goto hextonum_success;
+	}
+
+	ch |= 0x20;
+
+	if ((unsigned int)(ch - 'a') <= 5) {
+
+		rval = ch - 'a' + 10;
+		goto hextonum_success;
+	}
+
+	if (ch == '?' || ch == 'x') {
+
+		rval = rlong();
+		if (errno > 0)
+			goto err_hextonum;
+
+		goto hextonum_success;
+	}
+
+	goto err_hextonum;
+
+hextonum_success:
+
+	errno = saved_errno;
+	return (unsigned short)rval & 0xf;
+
+err_hextonum:
+
+	if (errno == saved_errno)
+		errno = EINVAL;
+	else
+		return 17; /* 17 indicates getrandom/urandom fail */
+
+	return 16; /* invalid character */
+
+	/* caller just checks >15. */
+}
+
+void
+check_bin(size_t a, const char *a_name)
+{
+	if (a > 1)
+		err_no_cleanup(0, EINVAL, "%s must be 0 or 1, but is %lu",
+		    a_name, (size_t)a);
+}