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- From: koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig)
- Subject: Re: SED is buggy (library bug ?)
- Message-ID: <koenig.725123480@nova>
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- Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
- References: <BzoEwL.6Jr@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:11:20 GMT
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- In <BzoEwL.6Jr@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca> gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca (Giles D Malet) writes:
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- >I got the `sed' from the GCC disk about 3 weeks ago, and noticed it made a
- >mess of a couple of cnews' reports. So, a couple of days ago, I got the
- >SLS one, to find it is also buggy. In fact, it is the same `sed' :-(
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- >$ echo xxxfooyyy | sed 's/x*\(foo\)y*/\1/'
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- >should print just `foo' (ie substring 1 in the left part of the pattern) -
- >instead it prints the whole lot.
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- >This is gcc 2.2.2d, jump libc.so.4.2, and its static libs.
- >OS is v0.99 with tcp patches, but this failed on 0.98P5 as well.
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- I had the same problem using sed and libc.so.4.2 (newest version).
- I switched back to libc.so.4.1 and the sed problem is gone!
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- Still running libc.so.4.1,
- Harald
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- Harald Koenig, Inst.f.Theoret.Astrophysik (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
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