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Re: [Grep-devel] regex and grep severely broken on HP-UX
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [Grep-devel] regex and grep severely broken on HP-UX |
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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:36:18 -0800 |
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:34 AM Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So grep worked on HP-UX before because it was using the system regex code?
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> I don't know. Maybe GNU grep never worked on HP-UX hppa? Or maybe it worked
> only when compiled by gcc? Or maybe the machine I have access to has a
> particularly buggy cc compiler? Or maybe GNU grep worked as long as gnulib
> contained the "old" GNU regex code and stopped working when we pulled in the
> new regex from glibc? I don't know.
In any case, at least now we know there's an issue.
IMHO, this need not hold up the release.