> >Description:
> 	Calling awk with an empty string as 1st parameter causes an internal
> 	error and a core dump.
> 
> 	Also submitted to Gnu awk mainteners.

this was bug #123, as well...

> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	from C-shell:
> 		awk ""
> >Fix:
> 	With this fix, awk produces a syntax error in the same conditions. 

it's *not* a syntax error.


cgd

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