Re: awk: fatal: /home/corinna/tmp/gawk-5.1.0/gawk-5.1.0-1.x86_64/src/gawk-5.1.0/main.c:1206: ezalloc called with zero bytes

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> reports this internal error in gawk:

>> $ awk -v s='@/' 'BEGIN{print s}'
>> awk: fatal:
>> /home/corinna/tmp/gawk-5.1.0/gawk-5.1.0-1.x86_64/src/gawk-5.1.0/main.c:1206:
>> ezalloc called with zero bytes

I keep old versions of gawk around precisely for testing behavioral
changes.  I can confirm that gawk-4.2.60 and earlier output "@/",
whereas gawk-4.2.61 and later behave as Ed reported.

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