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

[arnold]

"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?
> > 
> > Arnold -- does this look right to you? I haven't chased down all the nuances
> > of what this assign function is doing...
>
> Note: we may have a similar ordering problem at debug.c:1301.
>
> And at interpret.h:373, I'm not sure how Op_field_spec_lhs really works and
> what's going on with the field_assign value...
>
> -Andy

The change is probably right. But it should be commented as to what's
going on and why the order is important.

Eric - does it fix your issue?

I'll take a look at the other two places you mention.

Here there most definitely be dragons. Lots of them. :-)

Thanks,

Arnold