Re: [GNU sed] bug report

[Khanh-Dang]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Khanh-Dang wrote:

> > $ echo "':" | sed "s/\(.*\)\'://"
> > Segmentation fault
> > $ sed --version
> > GNU sed version 4.0.7

> What version of glibc are you using?  I don't use either RH or Gentoo
> and so I do not know what glibc version they ship.  Your symptoms look
> like glibc-2.3.1.
>
> I can reproduce your problem using glibc-2.3.1 on ia64.  I have run
> into several regular expression problems in that particular version.
> This only seems to happen when the RE is not completely clean.  As in
> the above because you do not need to escape the single quote.
>
> But older versions of glibc are fine and in particular newer glibc
> versions are fine for me as well.  I believe if you update your glibc
> library you will resolve your problem.  The problem is gone for me in
> glibc-2.3.2.

Both my Gentoo and RH are using glibc-2.3.2

I'll recompile my glibc if I have time, in order to get debugging 
informations and a core dump.