dfa.c problems on MirBSD...

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi All.

As part of testing gawk, Nelson Beebe builds it on a bunch of systems.
On MirBSD (which is some fringe BSD variant), the regx8bit test fails.
When gawk is run to bypass dfa, the test passes.

Grep 2.6.3 does not pass all its tests on that system. The ones that
fail are:

FAIL: test-mbrtowc3.sh
FAIL: test-mbsrtowcs3.sh
FAIL: test-wcrtomb.sh

The following is a good way to reproduce the failure with grep:

bash4.1$ echo -e 'a\xe5b' | grep $'\xe5'

This prints nothing on MirBSD and prints the line on Linux.

Nelson (bcc'ed) - it'd be good to put git onto your MirBSD system so that
the grep guys can work with the latest code.

Grep guys, please contact Nelson for access to his system so y'all can
track this down, if you're interested in doing so.

As for gawk, this is really a dfa issue, and I confess that I can't deal
with that code very well, so I'm leaving it to the grep guys to solve...

Thanks everyone,

Arnold