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

[Eric Blake]

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)",
               ^
sed/compile.c: In function 'bad_prog':
sed/compile.c:210:1: error: function might be candidate for attribute
'noreturn' [-Werror=suggest-attribute=noreturn]
 bad_prog(const char *why)
 ^

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