The following reply was made to PR bin/33392; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@NetBSD.org>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Cc: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: PR/33392 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:20:41 -0400

 Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > On Jul 3,  1:41pm, cheusov@tut.by (Aleksey Cheusov) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: PR/33392 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
 > 
 > | Changes you commited to the HEAD related to this PR seems good to me,
 > | everything works correctly and much faster than gawk (for huge
 > | regexps) that i used for years.
 > | 
 
 unfortunately, there seem to be some bugs introduced by these commits. 
 I'm getting lots of junk pointer complaints from free() followed by a 
 segfault.  nawk prior to these changes don't have this problem.  The 
 patch Christos attached to PR/3406 makes the segfaults go away, but this 
 new nawk uses more than 10x the RAM on the same script with the same 
 input file than an older (prior to these changes) nawk.
 
 I can send the awk script and input file if anyone cares to dig around.
 
 Thanks
 -Dan