Re: [bug-gawk] $0 reassignment corruption in 4.2

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:12:45AM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:24:49AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:53:14AM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > > > Combined patch attached. Eric -- can you please confirm this fixes your 
> > > > issue?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Eric - does it fix your issue?
> 
> Yes, applying that patch resolves the problem for me. Thanks to you both
> for looking into this.

I'm glad we have a patch. Thanks for finding and reporting the bug.

> I'm not sure what the policy is for GAWK
> releases. Will y'all be creating a 4.2.1 release any time soon after a
> fix is committed? I'm also curious what generally determines when you
> create a new minor release.

I defer to Arnold on this one, but I think this is a fairly serious bug
that justifies a 4.2.1 release pretty soon.

On an unrelated note -- I noticed that your mdlint script parses XML. Why don't
you use the gawk-xml extension to do this? In case it matters, gawk-xml is in
the new Fedora 27 distribution released today.

Regards,
Andy