mawk segfaults with big strings in printf string arguments

[ramack]

example:

mawk ' BEGIN { printf("'%s'", "1: gcc -Xlinker -no-as-needed -o compile_to_c.new compile_to_c1.o compile_to_c2.o compile_to_c3.o compile_to_c4.o compile_to_c5.o compile_to_c6.o compile_to_c7.o compile_to_c8.o compile_to_c9.o compile_to_c10.o compile_to_c11.o compile_to_c12.o compile_to_c13.o compile_to_c14.o compile_to_c15.o compile_to_c16.o compile_to_c17.o compile_to_c18.o compile_to_c19.o compile_to_c20.o compile_to_c21.o compile_to_c22.o compile_to_c23.o compile_to_c24.o compile_to_c25.o compile_to_c26.o compile_to_c27.o compile_to_c28.o compile_to_c29.o compile_to_c30.o compile_to_c31.o compile_to_c32.o compile_to_c33.o compile_to_c34.o compile_to_c35.o compile_to_c36.o compile_to_c37.o compile_to_c38.o compile_to_c39.o compile_to_c40.o compile_to_c41.o compile_to_c42.o compile_to_c43.o compile_to_c44.o compile_to_c45.o compile_to_c46.o compile_to_c47.o compile_to_c48.o compile_to_c49.o compile_to_c50.o compile_to_c51.o compile_to_c52.o compile_to_c53.o compile_to_c54.o compile_to_c55.o compile_to_c56.o compile_to_c57.o compile_to_c58.o compile_to_c59.o compile_to_c60.o compile_to_c61.o compile_to_c62.o compile_to_c63.o compile_to_c64.o compile_to_c65.o compile_to_c66.o compile_to_c67.o compile_to_c68.o compile_to_c69.o compile_to_c70.o compile_to_c71.o compile_to_c72.o compile_to_c73.o compile_to_c74.o compile_to_c75.o compile_to_c76.o compile_to_c77.o compile_to_c78.o compile_to_c79.o compile_to_c80.o compile_to_c81.o compile_to_c82.o compile_to_c83.o compile_to_c84.o compile_to_c85.o compile_to_c86.o compile_to_c87.o compile_to_c88.o compile_to_c89.o compile_to_c90.o compile_to_c91.o compile_to_c92.o compile_to_c93.o compile_to_c94.o compile_to_c95.o compile_to_c96.o compile_to_c97.o compile_to_c98.o compile_to_c99.o compile_to_c100.o compile_to_c101.o compile_to_c102.o compile_to_c103.o compile_to_c104.o compile_to_c105.o compile_to_c106.o compile_to_c107.o compile_to_c108.o compile_to_c109.o compile_to_c110.o compile_to_c111.o compile_to_c112.o compile_to_c113.o compile_to_c114.o compile_to_c115.o compile_to_c116.o compile_to_c117.o compile_to_c118.o compile_to_c119.o compile_to_c120.o compile_to_c121.o compile_to_c122.o compile_to_c123.o compile_to_c124.o compile_to_c125.o compile_to_c126.o compile_to_c127.o compile_to_c128.o compile_to_c129.o compile_to_c130.o compile_to_c131.o compile_to_c132.o compile_to_c133.o compile_to_c134.o compile_to_c135.o -x none"); exit; }'

[ThomasDickey]

I can only reproduce this with the antique version provided by Debian.

[ramack]

actually with "my" version on debian it is not problem, but the version shipped with ubuntu seems to be affected. But if you are convinced that it is solved in recent versions this is fine for me. Thanks for caring.