1# From dragon!knorke.saar.de!florian Wed Jul 16 10:47:27 1997 2# Return-Path: <dragon!knorke.saar.de!florian> 3# Message-ID: <19970716164451.63610@knorke.saar.de> 4# Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:44:51 +0200 5# From: Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de> 6# To: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu 7# CC: arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu 8# Subject: bug in gawk 3.0.3 9# MIME-Version: 1.0 10# Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 11# X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 12# Status: R 13# Content-Length: 1725 14# X-Lines: 177 15# X-Display-Position: 0 16# 17# I have a problem with gawk 3.0.3 on linux with libc 5.4.33. 18# The memory is corrupted, if I use OFMT = "%.12g". 19# With OFMT = "%.6g" evrything works fine, but I don't have enough 20# digits for the computation. 21# 22# Thanks a lot, 23# Florian La Roche 24# 25# Here is the sample awk-Script together with sample data: 26# 27BEGIN { 28 OFMT = "%.12g" 29 big = 99999999999 30 lowest = big 31 small = 0 32 highest = small 33 dir = "" 34 } 35$0 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ { 36 # some old awks do not think $0 is numeric, so use $1 37 if ($1 < lowest) 38 lowest = $1 39 if ($1 > highest) 40 highest = $1 41 next 42} 43$0 ~ /\/\.:$/ { 44 if (dir != "") { 45 if (highest != small) 46 print dir, highest, lowest 47 else 48 print dir, "-", "-" 49 } 50 dir = substr($0, 1, length($0)-3) # trim off /.: 51 lowest = big 52 highest = small 53} 54