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

[Eric Pruitt]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 01:35:34PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> On an unrelated note -- I noticed that your mdlint script parses XML. Why 
> don't
> you use the gawk-xml extension to do this?

There are at least a couple of reasons. Primarily it's because it's a
GAWK extension. The tests in the Makefile that run my script against
different AWK variants were not added for debugging this problem. I want
this script to be fairly portable although in practice, I only care
about MAWK right now. Secondarily, I run a statically linked copy of
GAWK built against musl libc, so I don't think it would be an option
even if I only cared about supporting GAWK.

Eric