Filenames with "=" crash contrib/test_summary

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug  8, 2000, "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com> wrote:

> ./mips-sgi-irix6.5/mabi=64/libstdc++/testsuite/libstdc++.sum in the build
> tree crashes contrib/test_summary script.

> gawk: cmd. line:40: (FILENAME=./gcc/testsuite/g++.sum FNR=12122) fatal:
> illegal name `./mips-sgi-irix6.5/mabi' in variable assignment

Which version of gawk is that?  I can't reproduce this with gawk
3.0.5.

The problem seems to be that the version of gawk you're using
interprets any argument containing `=' as a variable assignment,
instead of checking whether what is on the left of the `=' sign is a
valid variable name.

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