This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: ctags 5.5
Simon Liddington wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:24:57AM +1200, Simon Liddington wrote:
>>
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I just tried the same with your ctags and it dumps core the same way.
>> It happens if you cd into the ctags source tree and call `ctags -R .'.
>> Error message:
>>
>> ctags: Warning: ctags.html:11: null expansion of name pattern "\2"
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>> But I found that this only happens with Cygwin from CVS, not in 1.3.22.
>> So it's apparently a Cygwin bug.
>>
>
> Sounds like a bug in regex. Has regex been updated under CVS?
The problem has been diagnosed successfully in cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
It was fallout from the 32/64 work that has been going on.
Max.