regexec

[Rob Kendrick]

On 23 Jul 2008 23:40:11 +0100
"Chris Young" <chris.young at unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:37:52 +0100 (BST), John-Mark Bell wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure I have any recollection of it being solved, tbh. None
> > of us have been able to reproduce it, so it's somewhat difficult to
> > work out what's happening.
> 
> Well, I fixed it, but I'm not entirely sure how.  I deleted a load of
> defines from the makefile (ones I had initially copied from the debug
> target and then forgotten about) and just recompiled it again from
> scratch.
> 
> It sorted out my earlier ring.h problems as well.  Very strange.

This stinks of compiler optimisation/linking bugs.  Are you targetting
m68k? If so, it might be interesting to see if the Debian GNU/Linux
packages using similar compiles crash in a similar fashion.

B.