Re: AWK book "join" causes unexpected termination in XP

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. Apologies for the delay in replying to this.

I don't work with Windows, and on my Linux system both 3.1.6
and the current version, 3.1.8, work fine. I suggest you try to get
a copy of 3.1.8 for Windows.  Cygwin tends to work pretty well and is
what I use on my Windows system at work.

Thanks,

Arnold

> From: "Chris Willis" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Subject: AWK book "join" causes unexpected termination in XP
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 00:29:05 +0100
>
> 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