GNU bug report logs - #18738
Reference of a uninitialized variable in grep -P

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>, 18738-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18738: Reference of a uninitialized variable in grep -P
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:51:57 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Thanks for reporting that.  It's a bug in one of the optimizations I 
recently added to work around the libpcre slownesses with UTF-8.  It's 
also a bug in our test cases, which should have caught the bug.  I fixed 
it with the attached patch.

[0001-grep-fix-off-by-one-bug-in-P-optimization.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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