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In article <y-qyrwk@rpi.edu>, ramabs2@rpi.edu (Shiva Ramabadran) writes:
> 
> 	I'm running into problems using them on an Rs/6000 running
> AIX 3.1  (or 3.2 for that matter.) Specifically, I'm trying to 
> compile xxgdb on an rs/6000 and running into problems with Regexp 
> parsing using these routines. 
> 
> 	It SEGV's attempting recognize the most simple of regexp's 
> like  '[ ]*'. 

Have you applied the patch Torsten Ohl posted a few months ago?

Basically, the regexp package do not work when alloca() is used to
get the space for the nodes. Then storage is accessed (with a read
operation) which is never allocated; that can cause a SEGV like in
your case. There is a #define at the very top to discard the usage of
alloca(), use this.

Oh yes, a good tool for analyzing such errors is the debugging malloc
library (posted in c.s.r and available from all good archives).

--
Joachim

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