[bug-gawk] integer comparison/assignment bug

[Noah Dean]

Good evening!  This is my first time submitting a bug report (for any program, 
not just gawk), so please forgive me if I leave out something obvious.  I use 
gawk almost every day, and I think it's a fantastic tool.  I would like to 
thank all of the maintainers and developers for their time and effort on this 
project.

I've been able to reproduce a consistent bug that causes my gawk to abort.  
Attached are a MWE of a simple data file, simple script, and the dump from the 
crash.  The print command in the 'END' section is not reached.

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Details on my systems (I reproduced the bug on two similarly configured 
systems):

64-bit Cygwin on Windows 7

$ gawk --version
GNU Awk 4.2.1, API: 2.0 (GNU MPFR 4.0.1, GNU MP 6.1.2)

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A few observations as I was trying to narrow this down:

- It appears to only exist when the '-M' flag is enabled.  Without -M, the 
script runs successfully and produces the expected minimum result.
- The behavior is sensitive to seemingly unrelated details.  While adding 
additional print commands to better see what was going on, the crash stopped, 
although the script still could not successfully find the minimum.  (It prints 
blank for min)
- Forcing the $1 to integer via '+0' before assignment to the min variable also 
fixes the issue.

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If there is any other information I can provide that would be helpful, please 
don't hesitate to let me know.

Best,

Noah Dean



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