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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-02-29 00:49:40 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-03-01 07:46:03 -0800
commit8fcf61523644df42e1905c81bed26838e0b04f91 (patch)
tree9000bad5ba94b10461f6451ff375a21244f97553 /NEWS
parent4572ea4649d025e51463d48c2d06a1c66134cdb8 (diff)
downloadgrep-8fcf61523644df42e1905c81bed26838e0b04f91.tar.gz
grep: fix integer-overflow issues in main program
* NEWS: Document this. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add inttypes, xstrtoimax. Remove xstrtoumax. * src/main.c: Include <inttypes.h>, for INTMAX_MAX, PRIdMAX. (context_length_arg, prtext, grepbuf, grep, grepfile) (get_nondigit_option, main): Use intmax_t, not int, for line counts. (context_length_arg, main): Silently ceiling line counts to maximum value, since there's no practical difference between doing that and using infinite-precision arithmetic. (out_before, out_after, pending): Now intmax_t, not int. (max_count, outleft): Now intmax_t, not off_t. (prepend_args, prepend_default_options, main): Use size_t, not int, for sizes. (prepend_default_options): Check for int and size_t overflow.
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@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*-
GNU C library's regular expression functions cannot handle such long lines.
[bug present since "the beginning"]
+ The -m, -A, -B, and -C options no longer mishandle context line
+ counts that do not fit in 'int'. Also, grep -c's counts are now
+ limited by the type 'intmax_t' (typically less than 2**63) rather
+ than 'int' (typically less than 2**31).
+
grep no longer silently suppresses errors when reading a directory
as if it were a text file. For example, "grep x ." now reports a
read error on most systems; formerly, it ignored the error.