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+Sat Jan 28 22:07:17 EST 1995
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+Some older versions of yacc (notably Ultrix's) have limits on the depth
+of the parse stack. This only shows up when gawk is dealing with deeply
+nested control structures, such as those in `awf'.
+
+The problem goes away if you use either bison or Berkeley yacc.