Re: gawk 3.1.1l (beta) sigsegv

[John Leadeham]

> > The new beta 3.1.1l dumps core.
> ...
> > (The new version also seems about 20% slower, btw.)
> 
> both of these are probably caused by the new regex library, which is
> taken from current glibc (GNU libc) cvs tree.
> 
> The slowdown has to be viewed as necessary price for full support
> of POSIX regular expressions.  There is probably space for performance
> improvement, but going back is no option.
> 
> The coredump should be, IMHO, fixed before the release is made.
> 
> The first step is to try whether the bug has not been fixed yet.
> Could you please test it?  You need to replace the reg* files by those
> from current glibc CVS.
> 
> Could you please try the following patch:
> 
> http://www.math.cas.cz/~kasal/sw/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.1l-cvs_regex.patch.bz2
> 

Will try this but first need to install new autoconf tools as
patches seem to require 2.54 or later. Also, patch enquires
whether should reverse out pre-applied patch. What was it
diffed against?

John.