[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#702617: Bug#702617: . fails to match certian characters

[Joey Hess]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I can reproduce it from within ghc’s address space using gdb:
> 
> (gdb) call malloc(32)
> $7 = 64943120
> (gdb) call regcomp(64943120, ".", 0)
> $8 = 0
> (gdb) call regexec(64943120,"\242",0,0,0)
> $9 = 1
> (gdb) call regexec(64943120,"only_ascii",0,0,0)
> $10 = 0
> 
> And even from gdb while debugging “sleep”. So the behaviour is already
> there in regexec, but for some reason it is not triggered from C code,
> but only via some variants of FFI (GHC’s or gdb’s).
> 
> I’ll leave it at that, as this is not really related to GHC or Haskell
> any more.

That's some deep dive!

Sounds like a reassign to glibc is in order?

-- 
see shy jo
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