Re: gawk core dumped on too many input values

[arnold]

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)