On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> wrote: > Uninitialized value of variable BACKREF is referred in EGexecute. It > does not cause wrong result, but regex may be used even when it is not > needed. It may lead grep to slowdown. > > By the way, gawk initializes the variable already, so it does not have > to be fixed.
Thank you for that fix. I have determined that the problem was introduced since the latest release, so this does not require a NEWS entry, then added that info and a paraphrasing of your comment above to the commit log. Pushed here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=8a33cdeba4ba0
