GNU bug report logs - #22655
grep-2.21 (and git master): --null-data and ranges work in an odd way (-P works fine)

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 23:24:01 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: Zev Weiss <zev <at> bewilderbeest.net>
Cc: 22655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#22655: grep -Pz '^' now fails!
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 01:37:18 -0800

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Zev Weiss wrote:
> I see 'reflags' being tested in Pexecute(), but I don't see it getting set anywhere

Oops, that somehow got lost during merging. Thanks for catching that. Omitting 
the initialization caused hurt performance due to a failure to use 
PCRE_MULTILINE but did not cause a correctness bug, so the tests didn't catch 
it. Fixed with the attached patch.

[0001-grep-fix-performance-typo-with-P.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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