From dc4a30c6b16f306d8baab086d71bc2a5aae91682 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:59:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] adds strutils.toHex variant that knows about the used integer
 size

---
 lib/pure/strutils.nim | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/pure/strutils.nim b/lib/pure/strutils.nim
index 22641bca22..f59313450d 100644
--- a/lib/pure/strutils.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/strutils.nim
@@ -542,6 +542,10 @@ proc toHex*(x: BiggestInt, len: Positive): string {.noSideEffect,
     # handle negative overflow
     if n == 0 and x < 0: n = -1
 
+proc toHex*[T](x: T): string =
+  ## Shortcut for ``toHex(x, T.sizeOf * 2)``
+  toHex(x, T.sizeOf * 2)
+
 proc intToStr*(x: int, minchars: Positive = 1): string {.noSideEffect,
   rtl, extern: "nsuIntToStr".} =
   ## Converts `x` to its decimal representation.