Re: m4-1.4.5 -- two test in "make check" fail + patch

[Eric Blake]

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According to Peter Breitenlohner on 7/17/2006 11:25 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> I just fetched and built GNU M4-1.4.5 (i686-linux-gnu, glibc-2.3.6).
> 
> As usual I did "make check" and found that two tests failed.

Thanks for the report.  However, I had also found it, and already patched
it in CVS (with the same patch), prior to your email.  It only affects
relatively corner case code, which has a dangling backslash:
regexp(string, regex, \)

And the bug of reading beyond string bounds was also present in m4 1.4.4,
just the testsuite had no coverage for it.  So it is not too likely to
bite real code uses.  But I will be releasing 1.4.6 in the near future to
fix this, and any other issues that turn up in the next week or so.

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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