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#   Do you have the full text of the	a = a "\n" f() 	bug report?
#   I can't find it.... I'm not sure there really is a bug.
#
#Yes, see below.  
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#His example has unnecessary fragments (in particular, the use of
#gensub is irrelevant).  As I wrote to you earlier, the interesting
#question for me is:
#
#   Is the concatenation result undefined?  If the result is defined or
#   implementation-dependent, then gawk has a bug.
#
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#=== Original report =====================================================
#From: Attila Torcsvari <arcdev@mail.matav.hu>
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#Subject: gawk 3.0.3 bug
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#Bug-gnuers,
#please pass it to the responsible.
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#The following generates something interesting:
#
BEGIN{
a="aaaaa"
a=a a #10
a=a a #20
a=a a #40
a=a a #80
a=a a #160
a=a a # i.e. a is long enough

a=a"\n"f() # this causes the trouble
print a # guess the result
}

function f()
{
#print "a before: ", a
#a=gensub("a","123,","g",a) # 'a' will be just a bit longer (4 times, but still should fit: 4*160=640)
gsub(/a/, "123", a)
#print "a after: ", a
return "X"
}
#
#Possible reason:
#during f the a is modified,
#it can be even freed, because gensub modifies its size
#the printout contains trash.
#
#Used version: VC compiled WinNT 32 bit Intel.
#
#Regards,
#
#Attila Torcsvari
#Arcanum Development
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