CVSROOT: /web/grep Module name: grep Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 09/05/24 18:43:01
Index: manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html =================================================================== RCS file: manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html diff -N manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ manual/html_node/Reporting-Bugs.html 24 May 2009 18:42:59 -0000 1.1 @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +<html lang="en"> +<head> +<title>Reporting Bugs - GNU Grep 2.5.4</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> +<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.5.4"> +<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> +<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> +<link rel="prev" href="Usage.html#Usage" title="Usage"> +<link rel="next" href="Copying.html#Copying" title="Copying"> +<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"; rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> +<!-- +This manual is for `grep', a pattern matching engine. + +Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009 Free +Software Foundation, Inc. + + Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this + document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, + Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software + Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, + and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included + in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. + --> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> +<style type="text/css"><!-- + pre.display { font-family:inherit } + pre.format { font-family:inherit } + pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } + pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } + pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } + pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } + span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } + span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } + span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } +--></style> +</head> +<body> +<div class="node"> +<a name="Reporting-Bugs"></a> +<p> +Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Copying.html#Copying">Copying</a>, +Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Usage.html#Usage">Usage</a>, +Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> +<hr> +</div> + +<h2 class="chapter">5 Reporting bugs</h2> + +<p><a name="index-bugs_002c-reporting-245"></a>Email bug reports to <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>, +a mailing list whose web page is +<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grep";>http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grep</a>. +The Savannah bug tracker for <samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp> is located at +<a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grep";>http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grep</a>. + +<h3 class="section">5.1 Known Bugs</h3> + +<p><a name="index-Bugs_002c-known-246"></a> +Large repetition counts in the ‘<samp><span class="samp">{n,m}</span></samp>’ construct may cause +<samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp> to use lots of memory. +In addition, certain other +obscure regular expressions require exponential time and +space, and may cause <samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp> to run out of memory. + + <p>Back-references are very slow, and may require exponential time. + + </body></html> +
