Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!altger!fkk
From: fkk@altger.UUCP (Frank Kurt Kaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: gnu egrep - realloc of 0 bytes caused failure: Memory exhausted
Message-ID: <1390@altger.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 08:38:44 GMT
References: <1114@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: fkk@altger.UUCP (Frank Kurt Kaefer)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems Munich
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In article <1114@rlgvax.UUCP> dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis.Bednar) writes:
~The GNU version of egrep failed to work on a CCI 6/32
~running Unix SV.  The bug was traced to the fact that
~realloc(p, n) was being called with n==0, given the
~command line "grep abc".  I did not have time to track
~down the gory details as to why realloc was being called
~with 0, nor why it supposedly works on other machines
~(assuming that realloc is called with 0 on other machines).
~
~-dennis
~-- 

Hiya!

I have the same problem under OS-9/68000. I think the fix by dennis can
only be a tenmporarily solution but it is nevertheless useful.
Some comments from the authors ?

Frank (fkk@stasys.UUCP ...!pyramid!tmpmbx!doitcr!stasys!fkk)