gawk 3.1.5-1 coredumps on file open error

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 17 14:40:00 GMT 2005


On Nov 16 23:12, Christian Franke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> gawk 3.1.5-1 coredumps on file open error.
> 
> cygwin-1.5.18 on XP SP2, gawk-3.1.5-1:
> 
> $ gawk "/test/" no_such_file
> Aborted (core dumped)

Confirmed.  This is an upstream bug which uses a static buffer address
in a later free call.  I have no workaround so far, but expect a new
gawk version at some later point.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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