Re: regexp-exec fails for long strings

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: address@hidden
   Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:47:13 +0200

   |  guile> (test ok)
   |  string-length 42  => ok
   |  guile> (test (+space ok 11672))
   |  string-length 11714       => ok
   |  guile> (test (+space ok 11673))
   |  string-length 11715       => ok
   |  guile> (test (+space ok 11674))
   |  string-length 11716       => FAIL
   |  guile> (test (+space ok 11675))
   |  string-length 11717       => FAIL
   |  guile> (test (+space ok 11700))
   |  string-length 11742       => FAIL
   |  guile> 

i traced this to `regexec' (glibc 2.2.4) and stopped -- it's not a guile
bug after all, as far as i could tell.  (also, could not reproduce the
behavior under FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE.)

probably time to apt-get update...

thi