mayne@VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) (08/13/90)
Now that I've got that gripe off my chest I ask my fellow awk fans: Have you encountered this kind of problem? Have you found any useful techniques for dealing with it? Have you found a pattern in the kinds of source code which cause it to happen? I'll summarize email responses for the net if others are interested.
mayne@VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) (08/14/90)
In my earlier post on this question all but the last paragraph got lost somehow. The part which showed up on the net wouldn't make much sense, so I'll summarize again. My apologies for the confusion. Using awk on a Sun 3 run SunOS 4.0 I sometimes get either bus errors or segmentation faults in the awk interpreter. Although I sometimes find errors in the awk program which I was trying to interpret (no thanks to the graceful error handling) I regard this as a bug. An interpreter or compiler shouldn't fail like that no matter what the input is. But I know I have to learn to live with it the way it is. If anyone out there has learned some techniques to help locate the error in a case like this, or has discovered what patterns of source code errors cause this interpreter [mis]behavior please enlighten me. Email responses preferred. I will summarize if others show interest.