YAAB (Yet another awk bug)

[Ephrayim J. Naiman]

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> Awk's version of 'printf' core dumps or prints garbage when a field width
> variable is used. The manual page refers to printf(3S) so I assume this
> feature of printf should be implemented.

I also found this bug a long time ago and gave up on a fix.
Incidentally, I have a version of the unreleased new awk and it also
core dumps.  I hope someone is listening.
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