Description of problem: regcomp() should correctly find the occurences of '{ ' in a string, since it is said: (man 7 regex) A '{' followed by a character other than a digit is an ordinary character, not the beginning of a bound(!). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. compile and run this small C code below (slightly edited copy of the man example). 2. the result is OK on, e.g., OSX. Not on Mageia 8 (glibc 2.32-30) and not on Mageia Cauldron (glibc 2.36-30 at the time of writing) where an error is issued. Instead, the program using regcomp(), should find the positions of '{ ' in the string "1234 G!t!rk{ ss { zz...\n" Please notet hat the problem exists also with '{' and not '{ ' as I demonstrate in the below program. I believe the sentence " '{' followed by a character..." holds even if there is no character at all (and indeed the OSX version behaves the same with '{'), so the exact extent of this glibc bug is to be determined. 3. the code: #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <regex.h> #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof((arr)) / sizeof((arr)[0])) static const char *const str = "1234 G!t!rk{ ss { zz...\n"; static const char *const re = "{ "; int main(void) { static const char *s = str; regex_t regex; regmatch_t pmatch[1]; regoff_t off, len; int cflags = REG_EXTENDED; int res=regcomp(®ex, re, cflags); if (res) { printf("regcomp error:"); if (res == REG_BADBR ) printf(" REG_BADBR "); if (res == REG_BADPAT ) printf(" REG_BADPAT "); if (res == REG_BADRPT ) printf(" REG_BADRPT "); if (res == REG_EBRACE ) printf(" REG_EBRACE "); if (res == REG_EBRACK ) printf(" REG_EBRACK "); if (res == REG_ECOLLATE) printf(" REG_ECOLLATE"); if (res == REG_ECTYPE ) printf(" REG_ECTYPE "); /* if (res == REG_EEND ) printf(" REG_EEND "); */ if (res == REG_EESCAPE ) printf(" REG_EESCAPE "); if (res == REG_EPAREN ) printf(" REG_EPAREN "); if (res == REG_ERANGE ) printf(" REG_ERANGE "); /* if (res == REG_ESIZE ) printf(" REG_ESIZE "); */ if (res == REG_ESPACE ) printf(" REG_ESPACE "); if (res == REG_ESUBREG ) printf(" REG_ESUBREG "); printf("\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("String = \"%s\"\n", str); printf("Matches:\n"); for (int i = 0; ; i++) { if (regexec(®ex, s, ARRAY_SIZE(pmatch), pmatch, 0)) break; off = pmatch[0].rm_so + (s - str); len = pmatch[0].rm_eo - pmatch[0].rm_so; printf("#%d:\n", i); printf("offset = %jd; length = %jd\n", (intmax_t) off, (intmax_t) len); printf("substring = \"%.*s\"\n", len, s + pmatch[0].rm_so); s += pmatch[0].rm_eo; } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
POSIX says: Any of the following uses produce undefined results: ... * If a <left-brace> is not part of a valid interval expression (see EREs Matching Multiple Characters)
man 7 regex excerpt: REGEX(7) Linux Programmer's Manual REGEX(7) NAME regex - POSIX.2 regular expressions and man 3 regcomp says: REGEX(3) Linux Programmer's Manual REGEX(3) NAME regcomp, regexec, regerror, regfree - POSIX regex functions so, POSIX, POSIX.2 ??
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