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Re: too long source lines that are in error can core dump gawk 3.1.0
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Kenny McCormack |
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Re: too long source lines that are in error can core dump gawk 3.1.0 |
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Date: |
8 Nov 2001 20:53:03 -0600 |
In article <address@hidden>,
Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: found awk "internal error"
>> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:39:40 +0800 (CST)
>> From: Dan Jacobson
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>> I don't know that it was importaint, but i thought you should know...
>> it said "internal error" so I thoght you should know...
>> it is a product of some symple typo that i will now fix...
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>It was a memory overrun. In keeping with the "no arbitrary limits"
>principle of GNU software, this is now fixed. Thanks for the report,
>and here's a patch.
I've seen an awful lot of these little "unofficial patches" for GAWK 3.1,
in various fora (including my email). Are there any plans to put them all
together at some point as a "bug fix/update" release of GAWK? Will this
happen anytime soon?