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Re: nawk portability problem (Was: Current CVS - test suite needs gawk??
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: nawk portability problem (Was: Current CVS - test suite needs gawk???) |
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Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:04:48 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands)
> | nawk: Tempcell list is curdled
> | nawk: Source line number 7
> The stock nawk on Debian unstable works fine with this, and there is
> not `curdled' in the man page. Maybe the author can help us?
I don't have the nawk source code, but my guess is that it has
something to do with a bug in nawk, a bug that is caught by some
internal checking code. On Solaris 8, "strings /usr/bin/nawk" outputs:
...
## tfree %.8s %06o %s
tempcell list is curdled
no space for temporaries
## gtemp %.8s %06o
...
which looks like storage allocation debugging code to me.
Since this problem occurs only for maintainers, I wouldn't worry about
it. You can tell maintainers to get a working awk.
PS. I'm not sure why you cc'ed to mawk's author -- it's not his fault. :-)