Re: [bug-gawk] mixed LF/CRLF scripts: incorrect line numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 09:35:25 -0600
> 
> Gawk comes from a Unix heritage where LF ends lines, and this is backed
> up by POSIX.  In order to make life easier (if not totally easy) for people
> on Windows systems, gawk simply treats CR as whitespace.  Thus, a line
> like:
> 
>       foo = bar # comment 1 ^M bar++ # comment 2
> 
> isn't two source code lines; it's only one line with an unusual whitespace
> character in the middle.

Isn't this behavior identical to that on Posix hosts?

In any case, Cygwin is a Posix environment, and the Cygwin build of
Gawk behaves like Gawk does on Unix, i.e. it doesn't try "to make life
easier for people on Windows systems", in this regard.