Hi, On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 10:13 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I'm not an awk expert by any stretch ... one important thing here is > >> to make sure the code remains portable. Any ideas on that? > > Andrew> You'll have to tell me what problems you forsee. AFAIK use of AWK in > Andrew> gcc builds is OK, I don't know that we have such rules for classpath. > Andrew> Are you talking about mingw, or something else? > > Just that we have to be sure we aren't inadvertently using GNU awk > extensions. mingw should be fine, but I'm wondering about irix and > solaris.
Last time I did any AWK hacking I tested against mawk and gawk to be sure it just worked. Both come with compatibility documentation. gawk supports a --posix and --traditional switch to test out different flavors. Cheers, Mark
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