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

From: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>,
	Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
Subject: Re: PR/33392 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:51:45 -0400

 Dan McMahill wrote:
 > 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.
 >  
 
 I should have read source changes before sending this.  Christos, your 
 1.12 change to src/dist/nawk/b.c seems to have fixes the problems I was 
 seeing.
 
 Thanks!
 
 -Dan