regex library fails git tests

[Mark Levedahl]

On 07/21/2013 03:39 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> So, what I did now was this:  I added a workaround to Cygwin's regcomp.
> If the current codeset is ASCII, the characters in the pattern are
> converted to wchar_t by simply using their unsigned value verbatim.
> This allows to compile (and test) the patterns in the git testcases.
>
> However, please note that this behaviour, while being provided by glibc
> and now by Cygwin, is *not* standards-compliant.  In the narrow sense
> the characters beyond 0x7f are still invalid ASCII chars, and other
> functions working with wchar_t strings won't be as forgiving when using
> invalid input.
>
>
> HTH,
> Corinna
>

Thank you. I confirm that git passes the two test cases (t4018 and 
t4034) using today's snapshot. I will pass your comments about use of 
characters 0x80 and above to the git list to see if they wish to change 
anything.

Mark



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