Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 20:27:09 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: mike@networx.ie Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in gawk? Message-ID: <199608042027.UAA02059@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <ECS9608041347A@NetworX.ie> from "Michael Ryan" at Aug 4, 96 01:13:47 pm
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> Am I being unreasonable in expecting the following awk
> program to work?
[snip]
> awk: awkprog:2: (FILENAME=infile FNR=1) fatal: internal error line 1150, file: /
> usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/awk/eval.c
Nope, this definitely looks like a bug in (g)awk. Apart from the "internal
error" clue, line 1150 of eval.c in the awk source is a call to a function
called "cant_happen()" :-)
>From the context, it looks like a trashed pointer. In any case, I'd report
it to the GNU utilities team ('info gawk' for details), even though our
version of gawk is rather old.
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