Re: too long source lines that are in error can core dump gawk 3.1.0

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Aharon Robbins) writes:

|> > To: address@hidden
|> > Subject: found awk "internal error"
|> > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:39:40 +0800 (CST)
|> > From: Dan Jacobson
|> >
|> > 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...
|> 
|> 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.

When I applied this patch three of the awk tests fail now, for example:

--- noparms.ok  Wed Jun  4 18:38:15 1997
+++ _noparms    Mon Nov 26 16:43:51 2001
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
-gawk: noparms.awk:1:                      ^ parse error
+           ^ gawk: noparms.awk:1: parse error
 gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
-gawk: noparms.awk:1:                       ^ parse error
+           ^ gawk: noparms.awk:1: parse error

Andreas.

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