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Date: | Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:38:08 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: grep -P segfault |
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On Jan 26 15:04, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > Right before calling memchr, beg points to the first byte in the string > > "hello\n", end points to the \n character, and so does buflim. Thus > > (buflim - end) is zero, and memchr returns NULL. From there match_size > > is miscalculated and from there it's all downhill. The test for EOL > > should be skipped if buflim == end. > > I see this is an old bug, reported and fixed in CVS nearly two years > ago: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2005-02/msg00052.html > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?4531 > > And yet apparently the last released version is still 2.5.1a from > 19-Nov-2004. Sigh. There's no newer grep release than 2.5.1a. Looks like most Linux distros use additional patches from CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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