Re: [bug-gawk] Function argument corruption in 4.2.0

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 02:30:51PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> Surprisingly, I get an assertion failure when I run your script using
> the gawk 4.2 stable branch:
> 
> bash$ gawk -We mdlint test.in -v -r label_exists_for_destination
> gawk: field.c:350: purge_record: Assertion `(fields_arr[i]->flags & 0x0001) 
> == 0 ? fields_arr[i]->sub.val.sref == 1 : 1' failed.
> Abort (core dumped)
> 
> I wonder why that doesn't happen to you...

Sorry, duh, you obviously wouldn't have it compiled with assertions enabled.
For that, you would need to "touch .developing" before running configure.  At
least this provides a clue about where things are going off the rails.

Regards,
Andy