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Re: gnu awk 3.1.5


From: Jürgen Kahrs
Subject: Re: gnu awk 3.1.5
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:08:29 +0200
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Morten Nygaard Åsnes wrote:
> Hi, I think this is a bug in Gnu Awk 3.1.5
> I'm running it on Ubuntu Dapper.
> 
>    gawk 'END {a=""; while(length(a)<10) a=a "a"; print a} ' /dev/null
> 
> this goes into an infinite loop.

Not on my SuSE Linux 10.1:

cat /etc/issue

Welcome to SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).


gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.5

gawk 'END {a=""; while(length(a)<10) a=a "a"; print a} ' /dev/null
aaaaaaaaaa





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