Re: Bug in [...]* matching with acute-u

[Aharon Robbins]

> To: address@hidden
> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Bug in [...]* matching with acute-u
>
> 2) I'm not sure at all that AWK is, or has ever been claimed to be, an
> 8-bit clean program.

I've been trying to make gawk 8-bit clean.  I had thought it was...

> The behaviour you describe quite nicely fits what
> I expect would happen if that was the root of the problem. \372
> probably is the internal token or state number of some non-terminal
> element in the grammar.

This is definitely a problem in the regex matching routines.  It
doesn't have anything to do with the grammar or token values.

Thanks though,

Arnold