>Number:         21820
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       gawk dumps core after detecting a syntax error
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 07 21:57:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jon Olsson
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6T
>Organization:
Monkey Mafia
>Environment:
System: NetBSD apa.bahz.se 1.6T NetBSD 1.6T (APA) #8: Sat Jun 7 19:55:54 CEST 2003 jon@apa.bahz.se:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/APA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
apa% ktrace obj/awk -f ~/foo.awk
awk: /home/jon/foo.awk:1: !/^#/ && !/ / { print "\"" $1 "\" EXEC xterm -title " $1 " -exec ssh " $2 "\@" $1 " " $3 } '
awk: /home/jon/foo.awk:1:                                                                                            ^ Invalid char ''' in expression

awk: /home/jon/foo.awk:1: fatal error: internal error
zsh: 19998 abort (core dumped)  ktrace obj/awk -f ~/foo.awk

contents of ~/foo.awk:
!/^#/ && !/ / { print "\"" $1 "\" EXEC xterm -title " $1 " -exec ssh " $2 "\@" $1 " " $3 } '

apa% gdb -c awk.core obj/awk    
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This GDB was configured as "i386--netbsdelf"...Deprecated bfd_read called at /usr/src/gnu/dist/toolchain/gdb/dbxread.c line 2638 in elfstab_build_psymtabs
Deprecated bfd_read called at /usr/src/gnu/dist/toolchain/gdb/dbxread.c line 976 in fill_symbuf

Core was generated by `awk'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm387.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libm387.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libm.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.12...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#0  0x480b3877 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) bt
#0  0x480b3877 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#1  0x48125cbc in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#2  0x805d8db in catchsig (sig=11, code=6) at /usr/src/gnu/dist/gawk/main.c:708
#3  0x480e8a7c in __sigtramp_sigcontext_1 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
Cannot access memory at address 0x6e6f6973

I'm not really sure what's happening here, and I've only made it appear 
with the exact above input file. 

>How-To-Repeat:
	See description
>Fix:
	Not known
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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