Re: GAWK 3.1.3 on IRIX 6.5

[Russ Allbery]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> The test suite fails for GAWK 3.1.3 on IRIX 6.5 at:
>> clobber
>> fgawk: ../../../test/clobber.awk:9: (FILENAME=seq FNR=1) fatal:
>>     grow_iop_buffer: iop->buf: can't allocate 939524098 bytes of memory
>>     (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>> 
>> I've tried with both GCC 3.3 and the vendor compiler and received the
>> exact same error, so I think it's unrelated to the compiler.

> It resembles a problem which appeared on a certain version of HPUX.
> The problem is described in the file gawk-3.1.3/README_d/README.hpux .

I finally had a chance to get back to this, and rebuilt gawk 3.1.3 with
GCC 3.3.1, and this error went away.  I'm not quite sure what that means,
particularly given that I'd tried with the vendor compiler, but whatever
the issue is, it appears to be fixed when using GCC 3.3.1 on IRIX.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>