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#16481
dfa.c and Rational Range Interpretation
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Reported by: Aharon Robbins <arnold <at> skeeve.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:41:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Il 11/02/2014 22:42, Paul Eggert ha scritto:
> Ouch, I wasn't aware of this. Clearly the patch I put in was wrong --
> at least for the documentation that got put into NEWS.
Yeah, sorry for not spelling it out entirely. I worked on grep in
bursts, and as a result I tend to take too many things for granted.
> Perhaps you're right, and the best thing to do for now is to revert the
> patch while we can think about a better solution. This should be done
> soon, since Jim wants to do a grep release. Please let me think about it
> for a day or two. I would like to fix the bug, anyway, even if that
> patch wasn't the right way to do it. Longer term, it'd be better to
> simplify the code (perhaps along the lines that you suggested) as it's
> too full of gotchas now.
I 100% agree with this. If I don't hear from you I'll revert the patch
next Friday.
Paolo
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