From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wolfgang_J=E4hrling?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: regexp-exec fails for long strings Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:04:20 +0200 Sender: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020515080420.B201@dose.pro-linux.de> References: <20020425214713.GA19857@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021440770 22958 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2002 05:32:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 05:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 177rP7-0005yB-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 07:32:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177rPM-0006yS-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 01:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177rO1-0006wy-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 01:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 177rNk-0001yY-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 07:31:24 +0200 Original-Received: from dose.pro-linux.de (520089563584-0001@[217.86.127.130]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 177rNg-1znJ6OC; Wed, 15 May 2002 07:31:20 +0200 Original-Received: from toor by dose.pro-linux.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 177rtc-000085-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 08:04:20 +0200 Original-To: ttn@glug.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ttn@giblet.glug.org on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:53:48PM -0700 X-Sender: 520089563584-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:247 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:247 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:29:40 -0700 >=20 > i traced this to `regexec' (glibc 2.2.4) and stopped -- it's not a gui= le > bug after all, as far as i could tell. (also, could not reproduce the > behavior under FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE.) >=20 > probably time to apt-get update... >=20 > this problem persists w/ glibc 2.2.5. hmmm.... AFAIK, the glibc-people are rewriting the regex code for 2.3, because the current implementation got unmaintainable and has various strange limitations. This could be one of those. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang --=20 Wolfgang J=E4hrling \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user && Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ ["We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been on the ] [ cutting edge of not being good for anything." -- Roland McGrath ] _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile