[bug-gawk] 4.0 beta1, character lists broken

[Juergen Daubert]

Hi,

first a big thanks for the new gawk with lots of nice new features. 

I've done some first tests, it looks like the handling of character 
lists is partially broken with the new 4.0 beta:


$:~> echo 'a' | awk '/[\001-\177]/'
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: add_char: *bufp: can't allocate -1879052298 bytes of 
memory (Cannot allocate memory)

$:~> echo 'a' | awk '/[\134]/'
awk: cmd. line:1: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[\]/

$:~> echo '\' | awk '/[\001-\176]/'
$:~> 

$:~> awk --version | head -n1
GNU Awk 3.1.84


This is on a almost up-to-date Linux system with glibc 2.12.2 and gcc
4.5.3.

Thanks
Juergen

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