From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-10-14T23:25:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Segfault with broken regular expressions

Hi,

I've missed your article until it'd happend to be discovered,
because you posted it as a reply to an unrelated thread.

At Wed, 5 Oct 2005 02:56:10 +0900,
Ron M wrote in [ruby-talk:159019]:
> When I try to define this function with a syntax error in
> the regular expression, ruby sometimes segfaults.
> I'm using "ruby 1.8.3 (2005-05-12) [i686-linux]".

It might be:

  date: 2005-05-23 12:24:28 +0900;  author: matz;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
  * re.c (make_regexp): should not return junk address during
    compile time.  [ruby-dev:26206]

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Nobu Nakada