Re: [bug-gawk] Older bug

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:07:13AM +0100, Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> at the moment we are stumbling over a bug, which seems not to be solved
> till now.
> The bug is described here:
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00029.html

This is not a bug in gawk; it is a bug in the awk code that invokes the gensub
function incorrectly (with an invalid 3rd argument).

> A Patch was provided here:
> https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00269.html

The patch is for the code that was calling gensub incorrectly; this is not a
patch for the gawk source code.

> Do you know about that bug?

It's not a bug. :-)

> Is it fixed ?(in 4.1.4 ist is not)

The solution is to fix the code that is calling gensub incorrectly.
The warning message is there to help you find bugs in your code.

Regards,
Andy