[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Bug fix for PC Gawk 2.02

chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (03/14/89)

According to kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu (Conrad Kwok):
>[John B. Thiel (jbthiel@ogccse.ogc.edu) in his article writes about a
> bug in Gawk 2.02 for the IBM PC.]
>
>This problem is now fixed. I didn't make any changes to the source
>codes. The only change I made is to  re-compile regex.c with -Oa
>OFF (i.e. -Oilt -Gs instead of -Ox) and link the program again.

A warning to all users of Microsoft C:

If you want your program to work, don't use -Ox.  This flag causes the
compiler to make unwarranted assumptions about aliasing.  I'm surprised the
flag even exists.
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