Re: [bug-gawk] mixed LF/CRLF scripts: incorrect line numbers

[arnold]

Hi Eli.

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> Isn't this behavior identical to that on Posix hosts?

Yes.

> In any case, Cygwin is a Posix environment, and the Cygwin build of
> Gawk behaves like Gawk does on Unix, i.e. it doesn't try "to make life
> easier for people on Windows systems", in this regard.

>From ChangeLog.0, a mere 13 years ago:

| Sun Jun 26 16:37:59 2005  Arnold D. Robbins  <address@hidden>
| 
|       ....
| 
|       * awkgram.y (yylex): Ignore carriage returns in source code. Sigh.

Once upon a time, gawk would complain about CRs in source code. It
doesn't now. That's what I meant. :-)

The LF vs CR/LF stuff is a general PITA for everyone.  There's not much more
I can do about it. If I'm missing something, please let me know.

Thanks,

Arnold