Re: regex [was: M4 1.4.14 on AIX 7.1BETA]

[Eric Blake]

On 07/29/2010 11:19 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 07:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 07/29/2010 10:46 AM, Rainer Tammer wrote:
>>> *If I use M4 1.4.14.6-ffa0:*
>>>
>>> # ../src/m4 164.regexp
>>> ../src/m4:164.regexp:10: bad regular expression: `\<[a-z]\w+': Memory
>>> exhausted
>>
>> ...and has since regressed.
> 
> Looks like we have a suspect...
> 
> commit 602e3e6b709592f883ebb7bf58df1f955ea4b8f2
> Author: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> Date:   Fri Mar 19 21:26:36 2010 +0100
> 
>     regcomp.c: make non-_LIBC implementation of build_range_exp consistent

Not just ranges, but simpler expressions were dumping core for Rainer,
so I'm not sure if you've nailed the right culprit patch:

echo 'regexp(,^)' | src/m4

should output 0, not complain about memory failure.

> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think I'll have much time to look at it.  Anyway,
> Eric, is this reproducible on a glibc system --with-included-regex?

Not on my 64-bit Fedora 13.  I'll try again on 32-bit cygwin, but don't
suspect any difference.  If I had access to an AIX machine, then I could
use a debugger to help pinpoint it a little faster.

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