Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: sed-4.3.20-e9ab

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/31/2017 12:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Not long after the release of 4.3, we learned about a bug that
>> could cause sed to segfault, so this is a bug-fix release,
>> along with some portability fixes and documentation additions.
>>
>> Here is the sole NEWS entry:
>>
>> ** Bug fixes
>>
>>   sed could segfault when invoked with specific combination of newlines
>>   in the input and regex pattern. [Bug introduced in sed-4.3]
>>
>> Please give this a workout on any system you care about.
>> I expect to make a release very quickly. Possibly even tomorrow.
>
> sed.git fails to compile on Cygwin:
>
> sed/compile.c: In function 'savchar':
> sed/compile.c:259:15: error: format '%x' expects argument of type
> 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'int' [-Werror=format=]
>          panic("Called savchar() with unexpected pushack (%x)",
>                ^

Thanks again for the report.
I expect to push this fix to address that.
Surprised that I've seen no other build detect the (nominal?) problem.

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