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bug#18425: test for new glibc regex bug


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#18425: test for new glibc regex bug
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:40:16 -0700
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Jim Meyering wrote:
what about configure's --without-included-regex option?
With it, the test may well pass (counted as a failure, here) on
systems without glibc.

Grep uses the glibc interface for regular expressions, and I expect that every current implementation of that interface has the bug, so this shouldn't be an issue now (though it would be an issue if the bug is ever fixed).

Or were you thinking of glibc 2.2.6 and earlier? That might not have the bug, as it predates the circa-2002 regex rewrite that introduced the bug. I suspect, though, that 2.2.6 regex would fail several other tests. Are glibc versions this old still being used?

(Do users really complain when XFAIL tests succeed instead of failing as predicted? Dumb question, I know; they'll complain about anything....)





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