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Changes to grep/manual/html_node/Known-Bugs.html,v |
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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:55:26 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/grep
Module name: grep
Changes by: Jim Meyering <meyering> 23/03/22 22:55:22
Index: html_node/Known-Bugs.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/grep/grep/manual/html_node/Known-Bugs.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- html_node/Known-Bugs.html 3 Sep 2022 19:33:14 -0000 1.4
+++ html_node/Known-Bugs.html 23 Mar 2023 02:55:21 -0000 1.5
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
+<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
-<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
+<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0dev, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<!-- This manual is for grep, a pattern matching engine.
-Copyright (C) 1999-2002, 2005, 2008-2022 Free Software Foundation,
+Copyright © 1999-2002, 2005, 2008-2023 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
"GNU Free Documentation License". -->
-<title>Known Bugs (GNU Grep 3.8)</title>
+<title>Known Bugs (GNU Grep 3.10)</title>
-<meta name="description" content="Known Bugs (GNU Grep 3.8)">
-<meta name="keywords" content="Known Bugs (GNU Grep 3.8)">
+<meta name="description" content="Known Bugs (GNU Grep 3.10)">
+<meta name="keywords" content="Known Bugs (GNU Grep 3.10)">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo">
@@ -29,21 +29,8 @@
<link href="Reporting-Bugs.html" rel="up" title="Reporting Bugs">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
-a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em}
-a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none}
-blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em}
-div.display {margin-left: 3.2em}
-div.example {margin-left: 3.2em}
-kbd {font-style: oblique}
-pre.display {font-family: inherit}
-pre.format {font-family: inherit}
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-span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal}
-span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible}
-ul.no-bullet {list-style: none}
+a.copiable-link {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em}
+span:hover a.copiable-link {visibility: visible}
-->
</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual.css";>
@@ -52,20 +39,20 @@
</head>
<body lang="en">
-<div class="section" id="Known-Bugs">
-<div class="header">
+<div class="section-level-extent" id="Known-Bugs">
+<div class="nav-panel">
<p>
Up: <a href="Reporting-Bugs.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Reporting bugs</a>
[<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents"
rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index"
rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
</div>
<hr>
-<span id="Known-Bugs-1"></span><h3 class="section">6.1 Known Bugs</h3>
-<span id="index-Bugs_002c-known"></span>
+<h3 class="section" id="Known-Bugs-1"><span>6.1 Known Bugs<a
class="copiable-link" href="#Known-Bugs-1"> ¶</a></span></h3>
+<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-Bugs_002c-known"></a>
-<p>Large repetition counts in the ‘<samp>{n,m}</samp>’ construct
may cause
-<code>grep</code> to use lots of memory.
+<p>Large repetition counts in the ‘<samp
class="samp">{n,m}</samp>’ construct may cause
+<code class="command">grep</code> to use lots of memory.
In addition, certain other
obscure regular expressions require exponential time and
-space, and may cause <code>grep</code> to run out of memory.
+space, and may cause <code class="command">grep</code> to run out of memory.
</p>
<p>Back-references can greatly slow down matching, as they can generate
exponentially many matching possibilities that can consume both time
@@ -74,13 +61,13 @@
expression implementations have back-reference bugs that can cause
programs to return incorrect answers or even crash, and fixing these
bugs has often been low-priority: for example, as of 2021 the
-<a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/";>GNU C library bug database</a>
+<a class="url" href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/";>GNU C library bug
database</a>
contained back-reference bugs
-<a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52";>52</a>,
-<a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10844";>10844</a>,
-<a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11053";>11053</a>,
-<a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24269";>24269</a>
-and <a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25322";>25322</a>,
+<a class="url"
href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52";>52</a>,
+<a class="url"
href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10844";>10844</a>,
+<a class="url"
href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11053";>11053</a>,
+<a class="url"
href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24269";>24269</a>
+and <a class="url"
href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25322";>25322</a>,
with little sign of forthcoming fixes. Luckily,
back-references are rarely useful and it should be little trouble to
avoid them in practical applications.
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