1# From beebe@sunshine.math.utah.edu Thu Jul 10 00:36:16 2003 2# Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 06:42:54 -0600 (MDT) 3# From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> 4# To: "Arnold Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com> 5# Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu 6# X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110 7# LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 8# 84112-0090, USA" 9# X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 10# X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 11# X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe 12# Subject: gawk-3.1.3 (and earlier): reproducible core dump 13# X-SpamBouncer: 1.4 (10/07/01) 14# X-SBClass: OK 15# 16# I have a reproducible core dump in gawk-3.1.3, and recent gawk 17# versions. 18# 19# Consider the following test program, reduced from a much larger one: 20# 21# % cat gawk-dump.awk 22 23 { process($0) } 24 25 function out_debug(s) 26 { 27 print s 28 } 29 30 function process(s, n,parts) 31 { 32 out_debug("Buffer = [" protect(Buffer) "]") 33 Buffer = Buffer s 34 n = split(Buffer,parts,"\n") 35 } 36 37 function protect(s) 38 { 39 gsub("\n", "\\n", s) 40 return (s) 41 } 42