Re: [bug-gawk] Minor Gawk bug

[arnold]

Hi.

Thank you for the bug report. This no longer happens in the current
code base (available in Git).  I will shortly be making a beta release
of the next stable version, also.

Thanks,

Arnold

Chris Lauderdale <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've tested on Linux vers. 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.1.3, and only
> on the last one do I get an internal error for this, so it's at least
> recent.  AFAICT it's engaged when one uses a regex range match that's
> ~incompatible with the current character set (per LC_CTYPE); in my case,
> LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 by default.  Goes away if LC_CTYPE=C, with option -b,
> or for just [\x80] so I'd guess it's trying to un-UTF8 the escapes in
> order to determine what the range "means" and failing. Minimal reproducer:
>
> BEGIN { "" ~ /[\x80-\xBF]/ }
>
> Might oughta be an error (though that would tie program validity to the
> current locale, the thought of which makes my skin crawl) but definitely
> shouldn't be an abort.
>