Bug 99170 – gawk-3.1.3 mishandling of uninitialized variables

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Bug 99170 - gawk-3.1.3 mishandling of uninitialized variables

Summary:	gawk-3.1.3 mishandling of uninitialized variables

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gawk (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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URL:	http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-...
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Reported:	2003-07-15 09:58 EDT by Bill Rugolsky, Jr.
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:55 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-07-15 12:18:17 EDT
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Description Bill Rugolsky, Jr. 2003-07-15 09:58:49 EDT

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Description of problem:
The patch at the above URL from the gawk maintainer is needed so that
uninitialized variables passed to functions and used in a scalar context do not
generate an internal error.  Without the patch, the following fails:

function f(x) { return x }

BEGIN {
   f(z) 
   f(z) # this second invocation generates an internal error
   exit 0
}


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gawk-3.1.3-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Test code in bug.gawk
2. gawk -f bug.gawk

Actual Results:  $ gawk -f bug.gawk
gawk: bug.gawk:5: fatal error: internal error
Aborted

Expected Results:  Exits silently.

Additional info:

gawk-3.1.3 has many additional changes to io.c.  There were numerous I/O
problems in 3.1.2 related to the I/O rewrite, which seem to have been resolved,
but there may be dragons.

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2003-07-15 12:18:17 EDT

http://people.redhat.com/laroche/ contains the new src.rpm. Thanks for putting in
this bugzilla request,

Florian La Roche

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