gawk bug?

[Laurent Vogel]

Hi,

GNU Awk 3.1.2 (cygwin version) displays weird error messages
on scripts having long lines:

first, unterminated strings: BEGIN{x="...}

$ perl -e 'print "BEGIN{x=\"", "." x 249, "}";' > foo
$ awk -f foo
awk: foo:1:
BEGIN{x="...........................................................
............................................................BEGIN{x=".......
....
............................................................................
....
............................................................................
....
............................................................................
..}
awk: foo:1: fatal error: internal error
Aborted (core dumped)

$ perl -e 'print "BEGIN{x=\"", "." x 149, "}";' > foo
$ awk -f foo
awk: foo:1:
BEGIN{x="...........................................................
............................................................BEGIN{x=".......
....
............................................................................
....
..........................................................}
awk: foo:1: fatal: yyerror: buf: can't allocate -1 bytes of memory (Not
enough c
ore)


then, terminated strings: BEGIN{x="..."}

$ perl -e 'print "BEGIN{x=\"", "." x 7157, "\"}";' > foo
$ awk -f foo
awk: foo:1: fatal error: internal error
Aborted (core dumped)


I admit that some of the inputs are not necessarily valid, but I don't
think it is a valid reason for Gawk dumping core.

best regards,

Laurent Vogel