Re: regex test failure on HP-UX/hppa

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/12/19 3:48 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paul, if you understand it, the better.
> I am not going to pursue this further, since HP-UX/hppa, while not being
> end-of-life yet [1], has very little relevance for GNU.

I looked at the source and don't see how the problem could happen. I lack access 
to HP-UX/hppa and so can't investigate further myself. You're right that the bug 
is low priority for GNU.

> But what I find strange / buggy is that a library function calls
> assert and abort().

With the recent change to the Gnulib regexp code this won't happen any more, 
unless you compile with -DDEBUG. Of course the underlying bug (whatever it is) 
is surely still there.