weird value flow question

[Kapus, Timotej]

Hi,


This is a bit of a weird request for help. I'm trying to figure out if there is 
a way for a value to flow from either a command line argument or a file or 
stdin, to the return value of calc_state_hash in regex_internal.c . From what I 
understand (which is very limited), the hash is a sum of all the elements in 
the re_node_set. Those elements correspond somehow (I presume by id or 
something?) to the DFA nodes. The dfa nodes, do seem to contain characters of a 
regexp being matches (because re_dfa_add_tree_node adds the token to the tree 
). But I failed to find an convincing relation between the DFA nodes and 
re_node_set, but from the names I would assume there is one.


So to perhaps a more precise question I should be asking is  what is contained 
in re_node_set->elements and can it be influenced by something from the outside 
of the program?


Another avenue I was looking at was trying to see where "context" comes from in 
calc_state_hash and I managed to find acquire_init_state_context in 
lib/regexec.c , which seems to have a path the takes "context" from an 
re_string_t . That seems to be on the right path, but I don't really get the 
higher level ideas of what context does here, so I get lost.


I know it's a bit of a long shoot, but I would appreciate any help with this.


Cheers,

Timotej