[COMMITTED] a68: fix portability problems in sppp.awk

Jose E. Marchesi jose.marchesi@oracle.com
Thu Jan 1 13:38:01 GMT 2026


Happy new year!

Turns out the optional third argument of 'match' is a GNU extension
and is not POSIX.  Also, POSIX doens't recognize interval expressions
in regexps.

This patch vandalizes sppp.awk to remove the use of these nonportable
(but nice) constructs.

Tested with mawk.

Signed-off-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org>

libga68/ChangeLog

	* sppp.awk: Fix non-portable uses of 'match'.
---
 libga68/sppp.awk | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libga68/sppp.awk b/libga68/sppp.awk
index e2701e03b17..e793ee81503 100644
--- a/libga68/sppp.awk
+++ b/libga68/sppp.awk
@@ -34,20 +34,44 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 /^[ \t]*\{[ \t]*iter[ \t]+/ {
-    if (match ($0, /[ \t]*\{[ \t]*iter[ \t]+([a-zA-Z_]+)[\t ]*(\{.*\}[ \t]*){1,}[ \t]*\}/, matches) == 0)
+    line=$0
+    if (match (line, /[ \t\*\{[ \t]*iter[ \t]+/) == 0)
         error(FNR ": invalid iter")
-
-    iter_name = matches[1]
-    iter_alts = matches[2]
+    line = substr (line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+    # Iterator name.  #
+    if (match (line, /[a-zA-Z_]+/) == 0)
+        error(FNR ": expected iterator name")
+    iter_name = substr (line, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+    line = substr (line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+    # Blanks.  #
+    if (match (line, /[\t ]*/) == 0)
+        error(FNR ": invalid iter")
+    line = substr (line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+    # Iterator alternatives.  #
+    if (match (line, /\{.*\}/) == 0)
+        error(FNR ": expected iterator alternatives")
+    iter_alts = substr (line, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+    line = substr (line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
 
     # Count and collect alternatives.  #
     iter_num_alternatives = 0
-    while (match (iter_alts, /[ \t]*\{([^\}]*)\}/, matches) > 0)
-    {      
+    while (match (iter_alts, /[ \t]*\{([^\}]*)\}/) > 0)
+    {
         iter_num_alternatives++
-        iter_alts = substr (iter_alts, RSTART + RLENGTH)
         iter_names[iter_name] = 1
-        iterators[iter_name,iter_num_alternatives] = matches[1]
+        # Skip prefix.  #
+        if (match (iter_alts, /[ \t]*\{/) == 0)
+            error(FNR ": invalid iterator alternative")
+        iter_alts = substr (iter_alts, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+        # Get alternative contents.  #
+        if (match (iter_alts, /[^\}]*/) == 0)
+            error(FNR ": invalid iterator alternative")
+        iterators[iter_name,iter_num_alternatives] = substr (iter_alts, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+        iter_alts = substr (iter_alts, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+        # Skip trailer.  #
+        if (match (iter_alts, /\}/) == 0)
+            error(FNR ": invalid iterator alternative")
+        iter_alts = substr (iter_alts, RSTART + RLENGTH)
     }
 
     if (in_iter == 1)
@@ -63,8 +87,25 @@ BEGIN {
 
 /^[ \t]*\{[ \t]*reti/ {
     separator = ""
-    if (match ($0, /[ \t]*\{[ \t]*reti[ \t]+\{([^\}]*)\}/, matches) > 0)
-        separator = matches[1]
+    line = $0
+    if (match (line, /[ \t]*\{[ \t]*reti[ \t]*\{/) > 0)
+    {
+        # Extract separator. #
+        line = substr (line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+        if (match (line, /[^\}]*/) == 0)
+            error(FNR ": invalid separator in reti")
+        separator = substr (line, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+        line = substr (line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
+        # Skip suffix
+        if (match (line, /\}/) == 0)
+            error(FNR ": expected closing } in reti separator")
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        # No separator.  #
+        if (match (line, /[ \t]*\{[ \t]*reti[ \t]*\}/) == 0)
+            error(FNR ": invalid reti")
+    }
 
     for (nalt = 1; nalt <= num_alternatives; nalt++)
     {
-- 
2.30.2



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