Nice catch! It looks like I'm running grep 2.16. No clue why my
distro is more than four years behind. I'll whine at them. In
the meantime, let's close this bug; I can reopen it in the
unlikely event that it's still there when I get around to
upgrading.
It sounds like you've run into a b
It sounds like you've run into a bug that was fixed in grep 2.18
(2014-02-20). Please try grep 3.1, the current version. If that doesn't
work, it'd be helpful if you could give us a reproducible test case.
Here's how I tried (and failed) to reproduce the problem on Fedora 27
x86-64, which has g
The -i switch is slow when searching large files. I haven't dug into
the code in detail, although it seems that dfa.c is trying to build an
intelligent case-agnostic DFA when -i is specified. But that doesn't
seem to be working. Perhaps that's because I'm running the UTF-8
character set? Althou
