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Bug in gawk 2.14 patchlevel 0

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From: Richard Ohnemus
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:30
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gawk produces some rather interesting results when given the following:

    BEGIN {
	5a = 10;
	print 5a
	b = 6 + 5a
	print b
	c = (6) + (5a)
	print c
    }

This is definately bad awk code. (I would never write something like
this on purpose. A bug in another program that generates awk code
caused something similar to the above to be output.)

awk, mawk, and nawk all generate a syntax error when given the above
code.
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From: Rick_Ohnemus@imd.sterling.COM (Richard Ohnemus)
Subject: Bug in gawk 2.14 patchlevel 0
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:30:23 GMT
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