The regexp should not use .* in the first place, because "." also
matches the newline, and you need to use the non-capturing variant of
the grouping operator.
$ tclsh
% set fd [open "~/src/gcc/gcc/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/debug/dwarf2/inline2.s" r]
file3
% set text [read $fd]
[...]
% regexp -inline -all -- "byte.*?0x3.*? DW_AT_inline" $text
{byte 0x3 # Start new file
.uleb128 0x0 # Included from line number 0
.uleb128 0x1 # file inline2.c
.byte 0x1 # Define macro
.uleb128 0x0 # At line number 0
.ascii "__STDC__ 1\0" # The macro
.byte 0x1 # Define macro
.uleb128 0x0 # At line number 0
.ascii "__STDC_HOSTED__ 1\0" # The macro
.byte 0x1 # Define macro
.uleb128 0x0 # At line number 0
.ascii "__GNUC__ 4\0" # The macro
.byte 0x1 # Define macro
.uleb128 0x0 # At line number 0
[...]
% regexp -inline -all -- "byte\[^\n\]*0x3\[^\n\]* DW_AT_inline" $text
{byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} {byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} {byte 0x3
# DW_AT_inline}
% regexp -inline -all -- "(byte|data1)\[^\n\]*0x3\[^\n\]* DW_AT_inline" $text
{byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} byte {byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} byte
{byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} byte
% regexp -inline -all -- "(?:byte|data1)\[^\n\]*0x3\[^\n\]* DW_AT_inline" $text
{byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} {byte 0x3 # DW_AT_inline} {byte 0x3
# DW_AT_inline}
Andreas.
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