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# Subject: gawk-3.1.3 (and earlier): reproducible core dump

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# I have a reproducible core dump in gawk-3.1.3, and recent gawk

# versions.

# 

# Consider the following test program,  reduced from a much larger one:

# 

#         % cat gawk-dump.awk

				{ process($0) }

	function out_debug(s)

	{

	     print s

	}

	function process(s,   n,parts)

	{

	    out_debug("Buffer = [" protect(Buffer) "]")

	    Buffer = Buffer s

	    n = split(Buffer,parts,"\n")

	}

	function protect(s)

	{

	    gsub("\n", "\\n", s)

	    return (s)

	}