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

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: PR/33392 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:29:32 +0300

 >  | > | 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 fixed all of it...
 >  christos
 
 Are you sure about the following?
 
 @@ -82,10 +82,10 @@
         void *p;
         int i, new_count;
 
 -       if (state < fa->state_count)
 +       if (++state < fa->state_count)
              return
 
 I think ++ is unwanted
 
  new_count = state + 10;
  for (i = fa->state_count; i < new_count; ++i) {
                            ^^^^^
     ...
  }
  fa->state_count = new_count;
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.