-/* Parses as many pairs of hex digits as possible (possibly separated by
- * spaces) from the beginning of 's', appending bytes for their values to 'b'.
- * Returns the first character of 's' that is not the first of a pair of hex
- * digits. If 'n' is nonnull, stores the number of bytes added to 'b' in
+/* Parses as many pairs of hex digits as possible (possibly separated by spaces
+ * or periods) from the beginning of 's', appending bytes for their values to
+ * 'b'. Returns the first character of 's' that is not the first of a pair of
+ * hex digits. If 'n' is nonnull, stores the number of bytes added to 'b' in