Dominique Pelle wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2007 12:14 AM, Dominique Pelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Valgrind memory checker detects out of bounds memory access
> > when using random characters in regular expressions.
> [...snip...]
> > I attach a patch which fixes it. Perhaps there is a better way of
> > fixing it.
>
>
> Hmmm, re-thinking about it, perhaps it's simpler and better to just
> make vim_regcomp(expr, re_flags) check whether input regex
> string (expr) is a valid utf-8 string before compiling it, and if not,
> display an error message to user (something like "Regular expression
> is not a valid utf-8 string") and return NULL immediately, rather than
> trying to work around invalid utf-8 patterns. I can't think of any good
> reason for searching with a pattern containing invalid utf-8 strings
> anyway (when using utf8 encoding)
>
> Something like this?
Well, if someone manages to enter an invalid utf-8 character it's
difficult to guess why this would happen. We might as well search for
it.
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