Re: GNU Awk 5.1.0 - minor bugs

[Arnold Robbins]

Hi.

> From: Michael Builov <mbuilov@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:36:21 +0300
> Subject: GNU Awk 5.1.0 - minor bugs
> To: bug-gawk@gnu.org

I'm working on these fixes.

> 6) missing_d/fnmatch.c - 4 issues:
> missing_d/fnmatch.c:401 "cold = c;"                 - "cold" should be
> FOLD'ed.
> missing_d/fnmatch.c:356 "if (c < 'a' || c >= 'z')"  - ignoring 'z'. Why?
> missing_d/fnmatch.c:391 "#endif"                    - need to add "c =
> *p++;" after "#endif"
> missing_d/fnmatch.c:332 "goto matched"              - need to add "c =
> *p++;" after "goto matched"

I've made these changes.

> But, I think the missing_d/fnmatch.c code is too old and incomplete to fix
> bugs in it.
> So I rewrote most of this file to port gawk to Windows.

If you rewrote the file, would you care to donate it to gawk?  Your
paperwork should cover it.

And, to ask a silly question, why were you porting gawk to Windows?
That's already been done for MinGW and DJGPP, as well as Cygwin.
I'm curious.

Thanks!

Arnold