Re: awk & Jensen...help needed

["Rajiv Dighe" <rdighe nortelnetworks com>]

Err...ignore that...I have as usual made an ass of myself by 
confusing function file passed in via '-f' and input file..which 
specifies stuff to be acted on.. :(

--Rajiv

On 28 Oct 99, at 23:30, Dighe, Rajiv (R.) [EXCHANGE:CANOI:IO47-I] wrote:

> I haven't done any development on any variant of unix. I found 
> getting used to gdb rather hard..but that's what you get after 
> spending too much time using MSVC. anyways..using good old 
> printfs, I have found out where awk is hanging. but I don't have 
> enough familiarity with code( rather tools ) to figure out why. If any 
> of you gurus have any ideas, suggestions, please give me a shout. 
> Now to describe the situation....
> 
> Scenario: #1
> 	You are running awk using following command line..
> cr-734636-a$ gawk -f swaplns.awk
> 
> In this case, after bunch of command line & other processing we 
> finally land in a function called 'nextfile' in io.c from gawk source. 
> This function contains a for loop that is supposed to run from 1 to 
> some variable. It looks like starting value is 1 to stop over argv[0] 
> which is going to contain name that was used to launch the binary( 
> 'gawk' in this case ). When gawk is being run as in scenarion #1, 
> variable in for loop evaluates to 1. so loop is not executed & awk 
> behaves as if no filename was passed to it. It opens stdin & waits 
> for input. This leads me to believe that command line argument 
> parsing done by awk is for some reason toast on jensen. I 
> unfortunately will not have much time for next few days, but if there 
> are any C gurus among us, I would dearly love to get some help in 
> resolving this issue. It's extremly irritating to have to do 'make 
> config' & answer 300 questions to be able to build kernel instead of 
> using 'make menuconfig' which uses awk :(
> 
> --Rajiv
> 
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