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18 # Aharon Robbins on Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:10:36 +0200)
19 #Subject: Re: full text of bug report?
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25 # Do you have the full text of the a = a "\n" f() bug report?
26 # I can't find it.... I'm not sure there really is a bug.
30 #His example has unnecessary fragments (in particular, the use of
31 #gensub is irrelevant). As I wrote to you earlier, the interesting
34 # Is the concatenation result undefined? If the result is defined or
35 # implementation-dependent, then gawk has a bug.
38 #=== Original report =====================================================
39 #From: Attila Torcsvari <arcdev@mail.matav.hu>
40 #To: "'bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu'" <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>
41 #Subject: gawk 3.0.3 bug
42 #Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 18:12:13 +0200
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55 #please pass it to the responsible.
57 #The following generates something interesting:
66 a=a a # i.e. a is long enough
68 a=a"\n"f() # this causes the trouble
69 print a # guess the result
74 #print "a before: ", a
75 #a=gensub("a","123,","g",a) # 'a' will be just a bit longer (4 times, but still should fit: 4*160=640)
82 #during f the a is modified,
83 #it can be even freed, because gensub modifies its size
84 #the printout contains trash.
86 #Used version: VC compiled WinNT 32 bit Intel.