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 References: <716@hsi.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 11 > 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