Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 02:14:07 +0000 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk leaking memory during arithmetic? Message-ID: <84dead72041004191479cb774a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041004171422.GK262@numachi.com> References: <20041004171422.GK262@numachi.com>
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> I note that 5.2.1 and 4.10 are using different versions of awk.
>
> Are these awk bugs, or am I misusing awk? The memory consumption
> under 5.2.1 is what concerns me the most. I'll open a PR, if that's
It does look like an awk bug:
$ echo | /4/usr/bin/awk '{ x = 2147483648; print $x }'
awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: attempt to access field -2147483648
$ echo | /4/usr/bin/awk '{ x = 2147483647; print $x }'
*blank line*
$ echo | /5/usr/bin/awk '{ x = 2147483648; print $x }'
/5/usr/bin/awk: trying to access field -2147483648
input record number 1, file
source line number 1
$ echo | /5/usr/bin/awk '{ x = 2147483647; print $x }'
*core dump*
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