Re: non-decimal variable parameters cause crashes

[Aharon Robbins]

> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:57:55 -0700
> From: Ulrich Drepper <address@hidden>
> Subject: non-decimal variable parameters cause crashes
> To: address@hidden
>
> Running
>
>   gawk --non-decimal-data -v a=0x1 'BEGIN { print a+0 }'
>
> currently crashes.  More details including a patch at
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160421

Hmmm. Despite my previous mail, my version of stock 3.1.4 doesn't
fail on the above.

I'm curious why.  I use Fedora Core 2 as my main system.

Thanks,

Arnold