GNU bug report logs - #22181
endless loop in grep 2.22

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Christian Boltz <grep-bug <at> cboltz.de>

Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:47:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Christian Boltz <grep-bug <at> cboltz.de>, 22181 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold <at> canonical.com>
Subject: bug#22181: endless loop in grep 2.22
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 18:53:46 -0800
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Jim Meyering wrote:
> It was trivial: printf does not necessarily support \xHH hexadecimal
> escapes.

Thanks for catching that. I looked and found one other problem of that kind. I 
tried running the tests on Solaris and AIX and found a few more porting issues 
in the grep tests, and installed the attached.
[0001-tests-port-to-other-POSIXish-platforms.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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