Jim Meyering wrote:
Technically, we could fix it by adding more ifdefs, but I think it
would not be worthwhile to accommodate this use case.
I looked into this and discovered that fixing this can actually simplify the
source code by removing the need for the "We can't get here" glitch in
pcre
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 10:03 AM Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Technically, we could fix it by adding more ifdefs, but I think it
> > would not be worthwhile to accommodate this use case.
>
> I looked into this and discovered that fixing this can actually simplify the
> source code
Thanks for reporting the problem. This is a bug in grep's man page, which wasn't
updated back in 2016 when I updated the main documentation. (The man page is
lower priority and is sometimes neglected.) I installed the attached patch to
fix it.
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