Re: regexec() and OS/X

[James Gallagher]

On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> James Gallagher <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've found what appears to be a stack corruption when using regexec()
> > on a PPC Mac running OS/X 10.3.9. I was wondering if this is a known
> > problem?
>
> I don't know of any such problem.  Looks like you may have to debug  
> it.
>
> > After the call to regexec(), access to pmatch[0] fails with
> > BAD_ACCESS error.
>
> That's weird.  Is pmatch in static storage?  If not, can you reproduce
> the problem with pmatch in static storage?

pmatch is on the stack. If I make the array pmatch[2] and still pass  
1 for nmatch, the problem goes away. I have not tried some of the  
other obvious stuff like making the array bigger and making nmatch  
corresponding larger, et c., but I guess I should dive in. Thought  
I'd check first...

James
>

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