Re: gawk 3.1.4 core dump

[Aharon Robbins]

> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:44:53 -0500
> From: Ed Morton <address@hidden>
> Subject: gawk 3.1.4 core dump
> To: address@hidden
>
> I'm getting a core dump, details below.
>
> Regards,
>
>     Ed.
>
> $ cat t3                     
> text /
> $ gawk -vRS=" /( |$)\n" '1' t3
> gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal error: internal error
> Abort(coredump)
> $ gawk --version | head -1   
> GNU Awk 3.1.4
> $ uname -a
> SunOS ihgp 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise

I cannot reproduce this under Linux, with 3.1.4 or 3.1.5.

First, please get a copy of 3.1.5 and see if the problem persists.

Second, let me know how it was compiled.  I've seen things where compiling
regex.c and/or dfa.c without optimization made weird problems go away; it
seems that those two files really stress out compiler optimizers.

Thanks,

Arnold