GNU Regex Library Problem

[Adam T. Bowen]

Hi,

        We have recently upgraded a few of our workstations to RedHat 8.0
which comes with gcc 3.2.  This upgrade has created some problems in our
code that uses the regex library.  I have stripped the code down to the
following :

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <regex.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  regex_t RE;
  regmatch_t RM[10];
  char *Test_String="testing\ntesting\ntesting";
  int Pos=0;

  regcomp(&RE, "([^z]+z)", REG_EXTENDED|REG_NEWLINE);
  while(regexec(&RE, &Test_String[Pos], (size_t)1, RM, REG_NOTEOL) == 0) 
  {
    printf("Match from %ld to %ld\n",Pos+RM[0].rm_so,Pos+RM[0].rm_eo-1);
    Pos+=RM[0].rm_eo;
  }
  return 0;
}

The output of which is :

        Match from 0 to 7
        Match from 8 to 15

When I run the same code on an older workstation running RedHat 7.2 with 
the bizarre gcc3 redhat abortion command of version 3.0.4 I get no output, 
which I would expect as there are no 'z's in the string 
"testing\ntesting\ntesting".  Can you please let me know if I am going mad 
and there are indeed 'z's in the string or whether RedHat are playing 
there usual fiddling around with code and version number games, please?

Cheers

Adam Bowen