On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:02 -0600, Marshall McMullen wrote:
> No, I cannot get sed to work. It fails with exactly the same behavior,
> but I haven't tracked it down yet. I'm assuming it must have something
> to do with the same thing, but I'm not sure......
While looking why we do not have this problem I found this patch applied
by my toolsbox to sed-4.1.4...
/haubi/
--- sed-4.1.4/lib/regex_internal.c.orig 2006-08-09 11:38:58.387831000 +0200
+++ sed-4.1.4/lib/regex_internal.c 2006-08-09 11:38:03.337832000 +0200
@@ -883,6 +883,9 @@
re_node_set *set;
int size;
{
+ if ( size == 0 )
+ return REG_NOERROR;
+
set->alloc = size;
set->nelem = 0;
set->elems = re_malloc (int, size);
