On 2017-01-08T12:49:42-0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Assaf Gordon wrote: > > The immediate cause is somewhere in gnulib's DFA module. > > The bug was introduced in Gnulib, in commit > 403adf1b40897ba108075008c10bd38d937e1539 dated 2016-11-25 and labeled "dfa: > addition of new state on demand". It's not a bug that grep runs into, since > grep doesn't use the newline transition that sed does. I installed the > attached patch to fix the Gnulib bug. I'll leave Bug#25390 open, as I assume > you'll want to check it for 'sed' and add a test case for 'sed'.
I applied the patch (after some line number tweaks) on top of the 4.3 release tarball, and I can confirm that this fixes the issue for me. Thanks for the quick fix! -- S. Gilles
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