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Re: The dreaded regex patch [APPLIED]

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
January 9, 2002 14:37
Subject:
Re: The dreaded regex patch [APPLIED]
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20020109173541.021ba6a0@pop.sidhe.org
At 03:16 AM 1/9/2002 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
>Okay, here it is.  Attached is the regular expression patch.  It
>currently segfaults on Windows because of a combination of two factors:
>
>  1) There are some bounds-checking issues in key.c
>  2) Windows's malloc() isn't as robust as Unix's

I've applied this, but all the tests fail. It's in anyway so folks can work 
with it, both to fix it and to see if it's the way we want to go. (Not 
being deep into the guts of the RE engine I'm not best to judge, I think)

					Dan

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