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

[Chris Willis]

Hi

thanks for your efforts.

Its back to 3.0.3 for me.

I don't like the locale stuff, and the environment variable doesn't seem to 
make any difference. I get the join hang on two XP machines. For all I know 
on 98 too.

regards - Chris Willis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aharon Robbins" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: AWK book "join" causes unexpected termination in XP


> 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