glibc test time regression after gawk update

[Sam James]

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> It looks like we have a very substantial test time regression in glibc
>> after a gawk update.  Based on quick poking with GDB, it may be related
>> to the MinRX change in gawk 5.4.0.
>>
>> This is the script:
>>
>>   <https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/tree/stdio-common/tst-printf-format.awk>
>>
>> Is this expected?  The input files can be quite large, with very long
>> lines, too.
>>
>> I suppose we can switch back to the old matcher (will that remain
>> available?), or maybe run it under the C locale.
>
> Maciej, can you take a look? I suspect you're best placed to try reduce
> something here as you're the author of the tests.

Resending.

>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Florian
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