Re: Ver. 3.1.4 & 3.1.3 Windows ports: Chopped record count at large files

[Jürgen Kahrs]

George Zarkadas wrote:

> This behavior exists in:
> 
> 3.1.4 version, xmlgawk windows port
> 
>     (downloaded from
> http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado/xmlgawk/xmlgawk-3.1.4_20040920_mingw.zip)
> 
> 3.1.3 version, gnuwin32 windows port
> 
>     (downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/ )

1. These versions are outdated. Please try building GAWK 3.1.5
as supplied from the GNU servers.

2. It is generally a good idea to compare results from two
machines, but these machines should run different operating
systems and locale settings. Pentium 4 and Pentium M don't
differ that much when you use gawk.

3. Please boil down the example script to a minimum.
In recent months we have seen some excellent one-liners
in this newsgroups, which really re-produced a given
problem.

> but not in the 3.0.4 version (mingw windows port) which gives the correct
> results (as verified by independent checks).

In between these versions, there were some changes in
regexp and locale handling. I am rather confident that
your problem will not appear in more recent versions
of gawk. If possible, try any recent Linux distribution.
These distributions are even more up-to-date because they
contain recent patches supplied by Arnold Robbins (Maintainer
of GNU Awk).