[bug-gawk] fatal: cannot assign to arbitrary elements of SYMTAB

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

The following command used to work. But it stops working in "GNU Awk
5.0.0, API: 2.0 (GNU MPFR 4.0.2, GNU MP 6.1.2)".

$ awk -e 'BEGIN { SYMTAB["foo"] = "1"; print SYMTAB["foo"] }'
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot assign to arbitrary elements of SYMTAB

Is there anything that can be done to get the original behavior? Thanks.

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Regards,
Peng