1*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# From dragon!knorke.saar.de!florian Wed Jul 16 10:47:27 1997
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4*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:44:51 +0200
5*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# From: Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>
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7*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# CC: arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu
8*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# Subject: bug in gawk 3.0.3
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16*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello#
17*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# I have a problem with gawk 3.0.3 on linux with libc 5.4.33.
18*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# The memory is corrupted, if I use OFMT = "%.12g".
19*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# With OFMT = "%.6g" evrything works fine, but I don't have enough
20*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# digits for the computation.
21*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello#
22*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# Thanks a lot,
23*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# Florian La Roche
24*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello#
25*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello# Here is the sample awk-Script together with sample data:
26*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello#
27*e6d6c189SCody Peter MelloBEGIN {
28*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		OFMT = "%.12g"
29*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		big = 99999999999
30*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		lowest = big
31*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		small = 0
32*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		highest = small
33*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		dir = ""
34*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	}
35*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello$0 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ {
36*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	# some old awks do not think $0 is numeric, so use $1
37*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	if ($1 < lowest)
38*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		lowest = $1
39*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	if ($1 > highest)
40*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		highest = $1
41*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	next
42*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello}
43*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello$0 ~ /\/\.:$/ {
44*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	if (dir != "") {
45*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		if (highest != small)
46*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello			print dir, highest, lowest
47*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello		else
48*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello			print dir, "-", "-"
49*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	}
50*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	dir = substr($0, 1, length($0)-3)	# trim off /.:
51*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	lowest = big
52*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello	highest = small
53*e6d6c189SCody Peter Mello}
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