Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy
From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: bug in new version of awk (nawk)
Keywords: awk, nawk
Message-ID: <36212@sun.uucp>
Date: 11 Dec 87 05:18:38 GMT
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> Repeat-By:
> 	nawk '{printf("%s%s", "hi")}'       (then enter a return)
> 
> 		This causes a core dump on a VAX running 4.3 BSD.

Fixed in the S5R3.1 version.  The code there is different (I assume that the
routine you fixed here is "error" in "lib.c"); "error" takes a potload of
arguments and passes them, along with "s", to "fprintf".
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com