debugger command 'eval'

[Pascal Maugis]

Hi, dear gawk maintainers,

I extensively use gawk for my research and am sincerely grateful for the 
great program you make us available here. These past years, I have been 
enduring a bug in Debugger mode accross various versions of gawk.

Current versions are :

GNU Awk 4.1.4, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.1, GNU MP 6.1.2) : installed by 
the networt administrator under CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
GNU Awk 5.0.1, API: 2.0 (GNU MPFR 4.0.2, GNU MP 6.2.0) : downloaded with 
app-get under Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

Program :

   touch a.awk

   gawk -D -f ./a.awk

   eval "a()"

   eval "print 1"

1) launch "gawk -D" on any file

2) induce whatever error with the eval command : gawk: ligne de 
commande:1: fatal : function `a' not defined

3) the command 'eval' is then corrupted : gawk: ligne de commande:1: 
error: nom de fonction « @eval » déjà défini

I 'hope' this happens also on your system, and thank you in advance for 
solving that issue.

Cheers,

Pascal.


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*Pascal MAUGIS*
Modélisation hydrologique et changement climatique, PhD

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