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Gawk has known problems

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From: Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 17:57
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This is to forestall a bunch of mail, I hope.

The version of gawk currently on prep has some known bugs in it. First,
due to a last minute change, it won't compile on a lot of machines. The
fix is to move the defition of casetable to the top of the file, in awk2.c.

Secondly, gawk has a bad memory leak; it will use memory and not release
it.  We know about this, and I should be able to get a newer version that
is better to FSF this week. I will try to arrange for an announcement
when the new version is available.

We've also been told that gawk bombs when using the BSD getopt; substituting
the getopt from gnu grep is supposed to work.

If you've found these bugs, we know about them; anything else please send
me mail.  I will try to acknowledge all mail that I get about gawk.

Thanks,

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From: arnold@emory.uucp (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
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Subject: Gawk has known problems
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Date: 20 Dec 88 17:57:26 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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