Subject: Re: bug#15773: grep-2.15 bug report

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:40:40 -0700

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Aharon Robbins <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>> > The program below correctly produces no output, with and without the fix
>> > in dfa.c:lex. (I have added the fix anyway.)
>
> Also with LC_ALL=en_US.utf8, without the fix the program still passes.
>
> So, any ideas?

Hi Arnold,
I don't recall how gawk uses dfa.c, so can't really guess.
Does the DFA matcher really accept those?  If so, maybe
gawk somehow manages to reset that dfa.c-internal variable
via some other code path?