On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:26:23PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > forcemerge 195719 358858 > thanks > > Hello, > > I investigated this memory leak, and did not find any evidence of a memory > leak (a large amount of memory is used, without leaking). Thanks for looking into it. I also tried to reproduce it, both on current sid-ish versions and in an etch chroot. Unfortunatley I was unable to reproduce it even with my own test case (doh).. I initially came across the problem in a different context. Perhaps I'll try to dig this up.
> grep uses a DFA algorithm to perform regexp matching. This DFA algorithm > is either implemented in grep, or in the libc (when re_search is used). > Which DFA algorithm is used depends on the version of grep and on the grep > options. Neat; thanks for the explanation. Is this configured at compiletime or ??? What options have what effect? Thanks Justin
