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Re: regexp-exec fails for long strings
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Wolfgang Jährling |
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Re: regexp-exec fails for long strings |
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Wed, 15 May 2002 08:04:20 +0200 |
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:29:40 -0700
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> i traced this to `regexec' (glibc 2.2.4) and stopped -- it's not a guile
> bug after all, as far as i could tell. (also, could not reproduce the
> behavior under FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE.)
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> probably time to apt-get update...
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> 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
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