Busybox awk on 64-bit architectures?

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 26 September 2005 22:15, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > C) awk is full of other "unsigned long"
> > instances, D) this patch takes an assignment between "unsigned long" and
> > "unsigned long" and sticks a typedef in there to something else. 
> > (There's no _way_ that's the correct fix to whatever the problem is...)
>
> the correct fix i believe would be to basically run like:
> sed -i "s:unsigned long:uint32_t:" editors/awk.c
>
> /me tries it ...
>
> yep, provided test case starts working on my amd64

Woot.  I assume you're checking the patch in yourself. :)

Note that it would be nice to have a beat-awk-to-death regression test set in 
the test suite, but I haven't got the skills to do more than poke at it, and 
have a to-do list of doom in other areas anyway.  Any clues where we might 
find one?

Rob