bin/153659: awk(1) segfaults when trying to extract a combination of special characters

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

The following reply was made to PR bin/153659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, bugs-freebsd at interfasys.co.uk
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Subject: Re: bin/153659: awk(1) segfaults when trying to extract a combination of special characters
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:29:35 -0800 (PST)

 FWIW;
 
 This didn't segfault on i386 (8.2-RC1).
 
 Perhaps you could try the lang/nawk port?
 It's a more recent version than the awk
 in base.