What lead you to have gawk-3.1.0-shutup.patch? I beleive these warnings are useful and often indicate that gawk is doing something else then what the programmer has intended. They are issued only in cases which are described as ``giving undefined results'' in POSIX.
This should probably honor some POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable or another option to enable warnings again instead of unconditionally disabling this warning. I want to keep the default to not give a warning. Florian La Roche
I don't care too much about the POSIXLY_CORRECT case. I think it's useful in the default case. It can help to discover a typo, like this: $ gawk 'BEGIN{file="C:\win";print"\space"}' gawk: cmd. line:1: warning: escape sequence `\w' treated as plain `w' gawk: cmd. line:1: warning: escape sequence `\s' treated as plain `s' space
Ok, enabled warnings again. Will shut them off again if too many complains and too old code is still showing up. greetings, Florian La Roche
Thank you very much. Stepan Kasal