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* [Bug regex/6395] New: regex ^$ is not detected as anchored
@ 2008-04-11 12:45 bonzini at gnu dot org
  2008-04-11 12:46 ` [Bug regex/6395] " bonzini at gnu dot org
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From: bonzini at gnu dot org @ 2008-04-11 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: glibc-bugs-regex

Regex matching has an optimization where only one match is tried for a regex
anchored to the beginning of the buffer. While other anchors are resolved with
the fastmap, this one allows further optimization and is special cased. However,
because of a bug in create_cd_newstate, ^$ would be mistakenly treated as a
non-anchoring match, and re_search_internal would try matching it at every position.

In fact, the bug is (almost) fixed by this hunk:


@@ -1682,8 +1680,6 @@ create_cd_newstate (const re_dfa_t *dfa,
        newstate->halt = 1;
       else if (type == OP_BACK_REF)
        newstate->has_backref = 1;
-      else if (type == ANCHOR)
-       constraint = node->opr.ctx_type;

       if (constraint)
        {


However, some complications in building the NFA prevent this from fixing the
problem. Therefore, this patch cleans up the handling of anchors so that tests
on type == ANCHOR are not necessary anymore. When creating the NFA (calc_first),
I move the opr.ctx_type to the constraint field of re_token_t, and then I always
look at it unconditionally, without special-casing ANCHORs. This also allows
some simplification of duplicate_node_closure.

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           Summary: regex ^$ is not detected as anchored
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: regex
        AssignedTo: bonzini at gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: bonzini at gnu dot org
                CC: glibc-bugs-regex at sources dot redhat dot com,glibc-
                    bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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