Re: [PATCH] build: Avoid length() GNU awk extension

[Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>]

On 09/03/2022 09:54, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 09 Mar 2022 08:31, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Other awk implementations such as mawk do not support the length() function.
> those awk implementations are not POSIX compliant.  length() is
> *not*  a GNU extension.  you can see it clearly defined in POSIX:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html#tag_20_06_13_13

Ok, it is defined by POSIX, I will adjust the commit message.

> 
> that said, mawk does support length(), and has since at least 2008 in
> the 1.3.3 release.  i stopped looking back further in the history.
> 
> so you're going to have to provide a bit more info as to what you're
> trying to do here, and what tools & versions exactly you're using.

I received an error report from someone else which regularly builds 
Newlib and this use of awk broke the build. I don't know the exact 
version of mawk which was used.

Independent of the POSIX compliance of the existing code I think the 
change to use the return value of split() doesn't hurt?

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