bug#19193: Announcing "untangle" for Grep 2.21; R.I.P. Dad

2015-02-11 Thread sur-behoffski
napshot/hstbm-0.13.tar.gz Git users probably want to clone the repository instead; the latest sources (which may include changes after the 0.13 release) can be retrieved via "git clone": git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/hst cheers, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) Programmer, Grouse Software

bug#19997: Performance differences between Git sources and release tarballs?

2015-03-03 Thread sur-behoffski
ently to the development (Git head) set of sources? Apologies in advance if there's some documentation that I overlooked. thanks, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) Programmer, Grouse Software [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hstbm [2] http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/

bug#20003: Confusing developer web pages for GNU Grep

2015-03-04 Thread sur-behoffski
versions on a different machine, as suggested by Paul yesterday. cheers, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) Programmer, Grouse Software

bug#19997: Performance differences between Git sources and release tarballs?

2015-03-09 Thread sur-behoffski
On 03/04/15 17:48, Paul Eggert wrote: sur-behoffski wrote: Looking at Grep's "configure --help" output, I see that "--enable-gcc-warnings" is an option, and, with some experimentation with invoking compilation in different environments, it seems that a slew of warning

bug#21815: Grep 2.22 build/run/check: "duplicated target '.deps/alloca.Po'"

2015-11-02 Thread sur-behoffski
22/lib' Makefile:1684: target '.deps/alloca.Po' given more than once in the same rule   CC   argmatch.o   CC   binary-io.o [...] Looking at the sources, Line 308 of lib/Makefile.in may provide a hint: lib/Makefile.in:308:am__depfiles_remade = $(DEPDIR)/alloca.Po ./$(DEPDIR)/alloca.Po cheers, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) Programmer, Grouse Software

bug#22443: new snapshot available: grep-2.22.33-43f6

2016-02-03 Thread sur-behoffski
IL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ======== cheers, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) Programmer, Grouse Software

bug#23269: Multi-threaded operation, mbrtowc, and "untangle" script [was Re: bug#23269...]

2016-04-20 Thread sur-behoffski
ocessing is done when the modules are first initialised (e.g. setting up some tables), and mbrtowc itself is not thread-safe, as it assumes a "current" locale. So, I'm not sure if a thread-safe (i.e. locale-safe) version of mbrtowc exists; if not, this needs to be addressed befor

bug#23269: [Re:] bug#23269: Multi-threaded operation, mbrtowc [...]

2016-04-25 Thread sur-behoffski
this is a duplicate. -- sur-behoffski] Forwarded Message Subject: Re: bug#23269: Multi-threaded operation, mbrtowc, and "untangle" script [was Re: bug#23269...] Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:32:15 +0930 From: sur-behoffski To: arn...@skeeve.com On 04/21/16 19:25, ar

bug#23763: Bug report: Grep stops, if a text file contains a null character after 32768 bytes

2016-06-15 Thread sur-behoffski
ittedly somewhat dated, and/or for smaller architectures) is that preserving the distinction is valuable. Are there documentation standards, especially GNU ones, that cover this distinction? If not, is it worth striving to gradually introduce this in a systematic manner, e.g. "NUL (the zero c

bug#23989: Content-based source tracing, and tabs versus spaces

2016-07-16 Thread sur-behoffski
tation policy in the long run. cheers, sur-behoffski [etc...]

bug#22357: Algorithm switching and -F...

2016-12-12 Thread sur-behoffski
e bytes skipped per test), but, for some pathological data cases, the skip size might always be small, whereas choosing one of the shorter strings might lead to larger skips per test, and so run faster. cheers, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) Programmer, Grouse Software

bug#54174: (MacOS Monterey 12.2.1: zsh): grep "string" * is interpreted as grep -V when directory has a filename "-Vfilename.ext"

2022-02-26 Thread sur-behoffski
is at: https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html Hope this helps, sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) programmer, Grouse Software

bug#54174: (MacOS Monterey 12.2.1: zsh): grep "string" * is interpreted as grep -V when directory has a filename "-Vfilename.ext"

2022-02-27 Thread sur-behoffski
On 2/28/22 06:01, Marja Koivunen wrote: > Ok. I understand it is not possible to make “-V “ instead of “-Vfilename” > because so many existing scripts rely on thatgrept works a certain way. > > Maybe there is a way to add space after “-V “ and possibly also other options > that could be used as

bug#56079: Missing performance optimisation: Word start/end tests

2022-06-18 Thread sur-behoffski
This can reduce runtimes for large haystack input from seconds to milliseconds. While this is not a terribly common case, it's an easy item to check for; it's possible that, in the future, patterns may become less hand-crafted and more machine-crafted, and so this case may become more relevant

bug#75582: GNU grep 3.4 — enhancing manual

2025-01-15 Thread sur-behoffski
On 2025-01-16 08:05, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2025-01-15 02:51, Anton Samokat wrote: >> Please, make it more simple and straightforward, remove possible ambiguity > > Unfortunately these are competing goals. > > Perhaps this would be better: > > If no FILE is given read standard input, but if -r

bug#75582: GNU grep 3.4 — enhancing manual

2025-01-16 Thread sur-behoffski
On 2025-01-16 15:32, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM sur-behoffski > wrote: > [...]> > Thanks for the suggestions. I went with Paul's (keeping it concise is > important), so --help now prints this: > > When FILE is '-', read sta