Re: Gawk 3.1.5 core

[Aharon Robbins]

> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:23:46 +0200
> From: David =?utf-8?B?R8OzbWV6?= <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Gawk 3.1.5 core
> To: "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
> On Jun 20 at 09:05:05, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > > makes gawk to raise a segmentation fault:
> > >
> > > address@hidden [~] % gawk '{print $2;}' kk
> > > *** glibc detected *** gawk: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08090400 ***
> >
> > This is probably fixed by this patch:
> >
> >    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-08/msg00047..html
>
> Yep, it works. Thanks.
>
> It'd be good if a new release of gawk is made shortly. Almost a year
> of 3.1.5 with this bug is enough...

Please remember that gawk is a *volunteer* project.

I've been very busy lately and making a release actually takes a fair
amount of time.

Arnold