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Article #646bug in new version of awk (nawk)
From: stevens
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1987 19:52
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1987 19:52
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Index: awk/lib.c
Description:
The new version of awk (available from the AT&T Toolchest -
supposedly its also shipped with System 5.3.1) dumps core.
If you don't pass enough arguments to awk's printf(), an error
message is printed, with a copy of your format string that
was in error. When this format string reaches awk's error()
function it is passed to fprintf(). However, since there are
probably per-cent signs in your format argument to awk's printf,
when awk's error() calls fprintf, it'll reference random memory
locations through the stack trying to find the non-existent arguments.
Repeat-By:
nawk '{printf("%s%s", "hi")}' (then enter a return)
This causes a core dump on a VAX running 4.3 BSD.
Since the problem is random memory references through
the stack, the symptoms will differ on other systems.
Fix:
*** /tmp/,RCSt1014068 Wed Nov 11 14:34:27 1987
--- /tmp/,RCSt2014068 Wed Nov 11 14:34:28 1987
***************
*** 442,452 ****
int f;
char *s;
{
extern Node *curnode;
extern uchar *cmdname;
fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", cmdname);
! fprintf(stderr, s);
fprintf(stderr, "\n");
if (NR && *NR > 0) {
fprintf(stderr, " input record number %g", *FNR);
--- 442,457 ----
int f;
char *s;
{
+ register int c;
extern Node *curnode;
extern uchar *cmdname;
fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", cmdname);
! #ifdef notdef
! fprintf(stderr, s); /* wont work if s contains any percents */
! #endif
! while (c = *s++)
! putc(c, stderr);
fprintf(stderr, "\n");
if (NR && *NR > 0) {
fprintf(stderr, " input record number %g", *FNR);
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!hsi!stevens From: stevens@hsi.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: bug in new version of awk (nawk) Message-ID: <716@hsi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 14:52:14 EST Article-I.D.: hsi.716 Posted: Wed Nov 11 14:52:14 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 15:10:17 EST Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT Lines: 51 Keywords: awk, nawk