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Re: [kaos@ocs.com.au] libc/1842: regcomp gives "Invalid Range end" errors on regex that used to work
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: [kaos@ocs.com.au] libc/1842: regcomp gives "Invalid Range end" errors on regex that used to work
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 02 Aug 2000 08:43:34 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, kaos at ocs dot com dot au
- References: <hog0ong5cz.fsf@maclaurin.suse.de>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> regcomp seems to be broken in RedHat 7.0 beta. Could somebody check
> and fix this, please?
First of all, you cannot call it broken. The behavior of range
expressions is implementation defined and unportable. So it might be
called unexpected or changed. Everybody using range expression should
think twice.
I'll try to look at this and see whether the old behavior can be
restored.
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