AWK book "join" causes unexpected termination in XP

[Chris Willis]

Hi

This error can be circumvented by using a different version of the gawk 
program. I believe it was introduced by a system update. The automatic (a2p) 
perl translation works on my system. Unfortunately the awk version still fails 
on my new system. I thought it possible that the previous XP system was not in 
good order.

C:\chris\progs\join>gawk -f join.awk a.txt b.txt
gawk: join.awk:33: fatal error: internal error (SIGSEGV)

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.



C:\chris\progs\join>gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.6
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2007 Free Software Foundation.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

C:\chris\progs\join>

The system information gives the following info on the System Summary page.

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ACER-CFB90A4425
System Manufacturer Acer
System Model Veriton X270
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13 GenuineIntel ~2400 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R01-B3, 10/12/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name ACER-CFB90A4425\Owner
Time Zone GMT Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 420.39 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.12 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys


Do you want to know about any dlls?

regards - Chris Willis in the UK

a.txt
Description: Text document

b.txt
Description: Text document

join.awk
Description: Binary data

join.pl
Description: Binary data