Re: gawk core dumped on too many input values

[Ed Morton]

Done, thanks.

    Ed.

On 8/27/2023 12:36 PM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Please send this to the cygwin bug list. On linux:
>
> $ getconf ARG_MAX
> 2097152
> $ LC_ALL=C ./gawk 'BEGIN{print ARGC}' $(seq 1000>
> bash: ./gawk: Argument list too long
>
> So, not a gawk problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
>
> Ed Morton<mortoneccc@comcast.net>  wrote:
>
> > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> > Machine: x86_64
> > OS: cygwin
> > Compiler: gcc
> > Compilation CFLAGS: -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
> > -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong
> > --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
> > -fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/gawk/gawk-5.2.2-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/gawk-5.2.2-1
> > -fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/gawk/gawk-5.2.2-1.x86_64/src/gawk-5.2.2=/usr/src/debug/gawk-5.2.2-1
> > -DNDEBUG
> > uname output: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22621 TournaMart_2023 3.4.8-1.x86_64
> > 2023-08-17 17:02 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
> > Machine Type: x86_64-pc-cygwin
> >
> > Gawk Version: 5.2.2
> >
> > Attestation 1:
> >           I have read
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html.
> >           Yes
> >
> > Attestation 2:
> >           I have not modified the sources before building gawk.
> >           True
> >
> > Description:
> >           I was trying to test something related to ARG_MAX when I ran the
> >           awk script below and it core dumped instead of reporting an error
> >           and exiting gracefully. In case it's useful getconf ARG_MAX outputs
> >           32000.
> >
> > Repeat-By:
> >           $ LC_ALL=C awk 'BEGIN{print ARGC}' $(seq 1000000)
> >           Segmentation fault (core dumped)