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Diffstat (limited to 'field.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | field.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -771,10 +771,10 @@ fw_parse_field(long up_to, /* parse only up to this field number */ return nf; if (gawk_mb_cur_max > 1 && fw->use_chars) { /* - * Reset the shift state for each field, since there might - * be who-knows-what kind of stuff in between fields, - * and we assume each field starts with a valid (possibly - * multibyte) character. + * Reset the shift state. Arguably, the shift state should + * be part of the file state and carried forward at all times, + * but nobody has complained so far, so this may not matter + * in practice. */ memset(&mbs, 0, sizeof(mbstate_t)); while (nf < up_to) { |