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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Has anyone ported GNU e?grep to the PC?
Summary: It's 3-4 times faster than the MKS egrep.
Keywords: Turbo-C, GNU, e?grep
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Date: 27 Jan 89 13:54:57 GMT
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I recently grabbed the GNU e?grep and compiled it with Turbo-C.  After
clearing up some initial include-file problems, changing a couple of
int's to size_t's, and putting in tests which prevent calling
malloc(0), it ran O.K.  It still fails to match any of the lines in the
khadafi test, and it crashes the machine on some of the Spencer-tests
(at least 72--75)  It does succeed on Tests 1--72, tho I haven't gotten
around to testing beyond that...

Anyway, It does work pretty well for most of the kinds of things I want
to search for and it runs 3 to 4 *times* faster than the MKS egrep!  I
would like to have a fully functional version, however.  If no one has
done this, I may find some time over the next month or two to fix the
remaining porting-bugs...
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