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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Cc: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: Avoid length() GNU awk extension
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 03:54:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YihrS9u/4oDnYKyB@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220309073105.129187-1-sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>

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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

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.
-mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-09  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-09  7:31 Sebastian Huber
2022-03-09  8:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-03-09  8:54 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2022-03-09  9:02   ` Sebastian Huber
2022-03-09  9:10   ` Mike Frysinger
2022-03-09 10:03     ` Mike Frysinger

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