Re: [bug-gawk] bug related to hash function

[arnold]

Hi.

I did a brief test with the files you sent me and I see the same issue.
Truly weird. It will take me a little while to explore this as I have
a lot of other things going on, but I will get to it.

Thanks for the report and for your kind words.

Arnold

Andres Legarra <address@hidden> wrote:

> Here
> I am gonna try 4.1.3. I'd like to install it side by side with 4.1.0 so 
> it may take me some time
> I did not compile gawk myself. I cannot remember if I installed it using 
> ports or something similar or it came with the OS operative system. At 
> any rate, I did not compile it. It is a 64 bit executable.
>
> BTW, I am a big fan of gawk, that we use all the time. Thanks
>
> Andres
>
>
> On 02/05/16 20:53, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Thanks for the report. Please send a full program that demonstrates
> > the bug, and any necessary data files as well. I can't attempt to
> > diagnose any such issue if I can't first reproduce it.
> >
> > You might also try with the current release, which is 4.1.3.
> >
> > Also, did you compile gawk as a 32 bit or 64 bit executable?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Arnold
> >
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> From: Andres Legarra <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:34:36 +0200
> >> Subject: [bug-gawk] bug related to hash function
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I have found a weird bug concerning hashes. For a particular element
> >> x="00000779770060", the value of its hash table
> >> posout[x]
> >> that should be 44, becomes empty (null string). The asignment of this 44
> >> works, but then it gets lost.
> >>
> >> If I print it to /dev/stderr every few loops, it is not lost.
> >>
> >> I see this behaviour in my mac running El Capitan and GNU Awk 4.1.0,
> >> API: 1.0
> >> However in our Linux server running GNU Awk 3.1.7 I do not see this problem
> >>
> >> The error is reproducible (in my machine) and I can send files if needed.
> >>
> >> any help is welcome
> >> Andres
> >> -- 
> >> Andres Legarra
> >> +33 561285182
> >> INRA, UMR1388 GenPhySE
> >> CS 52627
> >> 31326 Castanet Tolosan, France
>
> -- 
> Andres Legarra
> +33 561285182
> INRA, UMR1388 GenPhySE
> CS 52627
> 31326 Castanet Tolosan, France
>