Re: memory corruption in regex.c

[Chong Yidong]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mar 22, 2008, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> -    re_char *old_buffer = bufp->buffer;                                    
>>> \
>>> +    unsigned char *old_buffer = bufp->buffer;                              
>>> \
>
>> What is the purpose of this?
>
> Compiler warning avoidance.  b is unsigned char *, whereas re_char is
> const unsigned char *.  I suppose it would be enough for new_buffer to
> be non-const, but these buffers are not const anyway, and the
> constness doesn't buy much at this point.

Thanks.

I've checked in your patch.