From 7bec6b13ce4dc01bb50b7fa682e3b77778562399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:11:10 -0800 Subject: doc: mention glibc bug 24269 * doc/grep.texi (Known Bugs): Mention glibc bug 24269. Merge formatting/URL changes from Gnulib regex.texi. --- doc/grep.texi | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index 4b279ccb..4b26f9d1 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -1971,9 +1971,15 @@ and memory to explore. Also, the POSIX specification for back-references is at times unclear. Furthermore, many regular expression implementations have back-reference bugs that can cause programs to return incorrect answers or even crash, and fixing these -bugs has often been low-priority---for example, as of 2019 the GNU C -library bug database contained back-reference bugs 52, 10844, 11053, -and 25322, with little sign of forthcoming fixes. Luckily, +bugs has often been low-priority: for example, as of 2020 the +@url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/,GNU C library bug database} +contained back-reference bugs +@url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52,,52}, +@url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10844,,10844}, +@url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11053,,11053}, +@url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24269,,24269} +and @url{https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25322,,25322}, +with little sign of forthcoming fixes. Luckily, back-references are rarely useful and it should be little trouble to avoid them in practical applications. -- cgit v1.2.1