didn't match pattern in some circumstance

[Kibum Han]

Doing the follows, I found gawk work weird:

--- cut here ---
$ cat kaka.h
  /*******************/
#define FREETYPE_MAJOR 2
$ gawk '/define[\t ]*FREETYPE/ { print $2 }' kaka.h
FREETYPE_MAJOR
$

... edit kaka.h 
... add one '*' in the first line.

$ cat kaka.h
  /********************/
#define FREETYPE_MAJOR 2
$ gawk '/define[\t ]*FREETYPE/ { print $2 }' kaka.h
$

--- cut here ---


gawk failed to match pattern.

Any ideas?

-- 
Kibum Han <address@hidden>