Re: GAWK 3.1.3 on IRIX 6.5

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        thank you for your bug report.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The test suite fails for GAWK 3.1.3 on IRIX 6.5 at:
> clobber
> fgawk: ../../../test/clobber.awk:9: (FILENAME=seq FNR=1) fatal:
>     grow_iop_buffer: iop->buf: can't allocate 939524098 bytes of memory
>     (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> 
> I've tried with both GCC 3.3 and the vendor compiler and received the
> exact same error, so I think it's unrelated to the compiler.

It resembles a problem which appeared on a certain version of HPUX.
The problem is described in the file gawk-3.1.3/README_d/README.hpux .

Perhaps it's worth to try the workaround suggested there.  The whitespace
has changed slightly, so you have to either use:

        cd gawk-3.1.3; patch -l -p1 <README_d/README.hpux

or use the renewed patch, which I have attached to this reply.

If this workaround fixed the problem, it would seem that the bug is
actually in the fstat() call of your C library.  If this were the
original library supplied by the vendor, it would be worth looking
into their knowledge base for a patch.  If you volunteered to prepare
a README file similar to README.hpux, it might help other IRIX users.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal

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