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From: mike@thor.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: gnu egrep - realloc of 0 bytes caused failure: Memory exhausted
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Date: 16 Feb 89 16:24:48 GMT
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I found out about the realloc problem about the same time grep was
posted (maybe a few days before) . . . it is fixed in the next version,
and there are a few other improvements.  When I finish it I will send
a diff to comp.sources.unix.

On an unrelated note, grep will not work on a Sun 3 if compiled with
-O2 or higher optimization, or on a Sun 4 with -O (which turns out to
be the same as -O2).  This is definitely a bug of Sun's compiler.
Use gcc . . .

	Mike Haertel
	mike@wheaties.ai.mit.edu