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2005 Nov 08
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R-2.2.0: malloc probelm in regex code (PR#8287)
...2.0/src/library/tools/src
Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) :
invalid 'pattern' regular expression
Execution halted
make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
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I've tracked down the problem to change (somewhere) in 2.2.0 vs. 2.1.1 which has
resulted in re_node_set_alloc() (in src/main/regex.c) being called with a size
of 0. Whereas some system (Solaris, Linux, ...) return a valid pointer to a
zero-size allocation, OSF1 returns a NULL pointer on a 0 allocation request
(documented as such, and the Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 documents
that either may hap...