I confirmed an additional byte isn't required at the top of an input buffer. However, I also confirmed an additional byte is required at the end of the input buffer. dfaexec will temporarily replace it with eolbyte as sentinel.
Sorry, I changed the patch again.
From 71bc6a65dcc0f42cb5b2c311ac2d5846a2669d01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 07:53:06 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] grep: testing matching with an eolbyte, add a byte to the end of an input buffer src/grep.c (grep): Testing matching with an eolbyte, add a byte to the end of an input buffer. --- src/grep.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/grep.c b/src/grep.c index bb5ba1c..7475ea1 100644 --- a/src/grep.c +++ b/src/grep.c @@ -2513,8 +2513,9 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) compile (keys, keycc); free (keys); + char eolbytes[2] = { eolbyte }; size_t match_size; - skip_empty_lines = ((execute (&eolbyte, 1, &match_size, NULL) == 0) + skip_empty_lines = ((execute (eolbytes, 1, &match_size, NULL) == 0) == out_invert); if ((argc - optind > 1 && !no_filenames) || with_filenames) -- 2.1.1