bug#43527: [PATCH] grep: avoid unneeded compilation of regex

2020-09-26 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:04 PM Norihiro Tanaka wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:25:06 -0700 > Jim Meyering wrote: > > > Oh! Good timing. I was about to make a new snapshot. > > Do you happen to have a test case handy that demonstrates the failure? > > I added test case to previous patch. > > By t

bug#43527: [PATCH] grep: avoid unneeded compilation of regex

2020-09-26 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/26/20 1:48 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: As far as I can see, this patch is not necessary (also, I could not reproduce your abort), so I'm closing this issue. Please reopen if you can demonstrate its utility. When I looked into it last week, I did the same thing with an assert with the same res

bug#43527: [PATCH] grep: avoid unneeded compilation of regex

2020-09-26 Thread Norihiro Tanaka
On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:12:37 -0700 Paul Eggert wrote: > The patch should be harmless (though this fact isn't trivial) and I can > see it being useful for plausible future performance improvements, so it > would make sense to install it after the next release. No longer need the patch. This bu