Re: [bug-gawk] typeof1.awk causes segfault when run through the debugger

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2015-06-21 16:39, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Very nice catch.  I have started looking into this.  The debugger
> doesn't understand typed regexes but I think that can be fixed.

Thanks for looking into the issue. In the same context: below is what 
happens if the variable is first defined as number, then used as regex.

Hermann

$ cat test.awk
BEGIN { x = 0; x = @/[a-z]/; x = "" }
$
$ printf "w x \n r \n n \n n" | awk -D -f test.awk
Watchpoint 1: x
Starting program:
Stopping in BEGIN ...
Watchpoint 1: x
  Old value: untyped variable
  New value: 0
main() at `test.awk':1
1       BEGIN { x = 0; x = @/[a-z]/; x = "" }
Watchpoint 1: x
  Old value: 0
  New value: ?? flags MALLOC
main() at `test.awk':1
1       BEGIN { x = 0; x = @/[a-z]/; x = "" }
Program exited normally with exit value: 0