Re: [bug-gawk] Problem with strftime

[Hermann Peifer]

On 14/10/2011 12:47, John Haque wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:50:07PM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >     I'm running gawk 3.1.6.  The strftime function will crash awk if
> > the input is too big.  Here's an example of working input and
> > non-working input:
> >
> > $ echo 9999999999 | awk '{print strftime("%Y-%m-%d",$1)}'
> > 2286-11-20
> > $ echo 13159568651306858568 | awk '{print strftime("%Y-%m-%d",$1)}'
> > awk: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal error: internal error
>
> Does not crash gawk 4.0. Please, consider upgrading to version 4.0.

$ echo 13159568651306858568 | awk '{print strftime("%Y-%m-%d",$1)}'
awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal error: internal error
Aborted
$ awk --version | head -1
GNU Awk 4.0.0

I'm on 64-bit Linux.

Hermann