Re: gawk 3.1.3 crash in POSIX RE

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:42:18PM -0400, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
> The attached awk script acronyms.awk crashes during parsing with gawk
> 3.1.3. It works with gawk 3.0.6. regexpatch contains a context diff for
> a fix. In words: it crashes when RE_TRANSLATE_TYPE is defined as char *,
> but not if it's defined as unsigned char *.

thank you very much for the patch.  I've already seen a similar patch;
I have forwarded it to the GNU libc maintainers, as they have the master
copy for reg* source files.

Regards,
        Stepan Kasal