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Re: [Grep-devel] new snapshot available: grep-3.0.23-b00df
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arnold |
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Re: [Grep-devel] new snapshot available: grep-3.0.23-b00df |
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Sun, 02 Jul 2017 01:11:47 -0600 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:55 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> > Do you still want the log? If so I'll send it...
> >>
> >> Yes, please, in case it's easy to fix.
> >
> > Attached. Thanks!
>
> Thanks.
> I've determined the cause, at least. The sole caller of mbstoupper
> (which contained the relevant __CYGWIN__-specific
> surrogate-pair-handling code) was removed by the improvements of
> v2.21-63-g8a33cde, and not long after, I noticed that mbstoupper was
> no longer used, so removed it altogether.
>
> Since this affects surrogate-pairs only on cygwin, I'm not going to do
> anything about this prior to release. After release, I'll make that
> test skip or maybe even remove it altogether.
OK, glad the log was helpful. In the future I will try to remember to
send it along if I see failures.
Do you want to document this cygwin issue as a known issue somewhere? :-)
Thanks,
Arnold