Re: multiple file processing doesn't work on sparc64

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re the:

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:44:17 +0200
> From: Jan Oravec <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: multiple file processing doesn't work on sparc64
>
> Hello,
>
> 'numfiles' is defined as 'long' in main.c and in awkgram it is defined as
> 'extern int'. While 'int' is 32-bit and 'long' is 64-bit on 64-bit
> architectures and byte ordering is big endian on sparc architectures, the
> result is that one cannot specify multiple '-f' flags when gawk is compiled
> on sparc64 in 64-bit user space.
>
> I am not on the list, please keep me in CC:.
>
> The patch to solve this problem:
>
> --- gawk-3.1.3/awkgram.c.old    2003-07-04 19:49:50.000000000 +0200
> +++ gawk-3.1.3/awkgram.c        2003-08-20 09:34:15.000000000 +0200

Much thanks for the report and patch.  The correct place to make the
change is in awkgram.y, since awkgram.c is built from that. I have
applied this fix to it.

Thanks,

Arnold