Re: File parsing and cloumn indexing problem

[Aharon Robbins]

I've had people have problems with the floating point / integer conversion
libraries on embedded systems.  The last time was over a year ago on an ARM
box, but maybe something like that is going on.

You might also back down to gcc 3.x...

Arnold

> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:34:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: Daniel Belz <address@hidden>
> Subject: File parsing and cloumn indexing problem
> To: address@hidden
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to cross-compile the gawk package for
> PowerPC following the CLFS guide, but something is
> wrong. Look at the following example:
>
> =========
> A precompile ppc binary from ELDK (denx):
> -----------------
> # gawk 'FS=":" { print $4 }' /etc/passwd
>
> 1
> 99
> 501
> 504
> # gawk 'FS=":" { print $"4" }' /etc/passwd
>
> 1
> 99
> 501
> 504
> =========
> My cross gawk:
> --------------
> #  gawk 'FS=":" { print $4 }' /etc/passwd
>
> x
> x
> x
> x
> #  gawk 'FS=":" { print $"4" }' /etc/passwd
>
> 1
> 99
> 501
> 504
> =========
>
>
> Any idea what is happening? I saw the same problem
> with the version 3.1.5.
>
>
>
> There is my software versions:
> Gcc 4.0.0
> libc-2.3.5
> GNU Awk 3.1.4
> Kernel 2.6.14
>
>
> Regards,
> DB