# From djones@zoonami.com Wed Jun 13 17:46:27 2001 # Received: from mail.actcom.co.il [192.114.47.13] # by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.5.0) # for arnold@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:46:27 +0300 (IDT) # Received: by actcom.co.il (mbox arobbins) # (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Wed Jun 13 17:47:09 2001) # X-From_: djones@zoonami.com Wed Jun 13 17:45:40 2001 # Received: from lmail.actcom.co.il by actcom.co.il with ESMTP # (8.9.1a/actcom-0.2) id RAA07057 for ; # Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:45:34 +0300 (EET DST) # (rfc931-sender: mail.actcom.co.il [192.114.47.13]) # Received: from billohost.com (www.billohost.com [209.196.35.10]) # by lmail.actcom.co.il (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5DEjSO24028 # for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:45:33 +0300 # Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) # by billohost.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24625 # for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:44:43 -0400 # Received: from topcat.zoonami.com ([193.112.141.198]) # by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) # id 15ABtZ-0000FQ-00 # for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:45:21 -0400 # Received: from topcat.zoonami.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) # by topcat.zoonami.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28329; # Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:45:54 GMT # (envelope-from djones@topcat.zoonami.com) # Message-Id: <200106131445.OAA28329@topcat.zoonami.com> # To: bug-gawk@gnu.org # cc: David Jones # Subject: 3.1.0 core dumps. Fiddling with OFMT? # Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:45:54 +0000 # From: David Jones # Status: R # # The following program causes gawk to dump core: # # jot 10|./gawk '{OFMT="%."NR"f";print NR}' # # 'jot 10', if you didn't know, produces the numbers 1 to 10 each on its # own line (ie it's like awk 'BEGIN{for(i=1;i<=10;++i)print i}') # # Here's an example run: # # -- run being # 1 # 2 # 3 # 4 # gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=5) fatal error: internal error # Abort trap - core dumped # -- run end # # Ah. print NR appears to be not interesting. The following program also # has the same problem: # # jot 10|./gawk '{OFMT="%."NR"f"}' # # Cheers, # djones # (version info follows) # # I'm running on FreeBSD 4.1, here's the output of uname -a # # FreeBSD topcat.zoonami.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000 jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 # # And ./gnu --version # # GNU Awk 3.1.0 # Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2001 Free Software Foundation. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # # { OFMT="%."NR"f"; print NR }