RE: Program crash with regex wrapper after translation
- Posted by Andy Serpa <renegade at earthling.net> Jan 04, 2002
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Robert Craig wrote: > Andy Serpa writes: > > I've been using Karl Bochert's wrappers (regex.zip in the archive) for > > the PCRE regular expression library, which work great under the > > interpreter, but when translated to C causes a crash whenever the > > regex_free function is called (which frees up memory when you are done > > with a compiled pattern). > > Check the argument that's passed to regex_free(). > It's possible that it's wrong when you use the interpreter, > but it just doesn't cause a crash. If it looks ok, > then please send me a small program that works > with the 2.3 alpha interpreter, but not with the 2.3 alpha translator. > If you are still using the 2.2 translator, please install 2.3 alpha, > interpreter and translator. > > Regards, > Rob Craig > Rapid Deployment Software > http://www.RapidEuphoria.com > > You don't even need to have regex_free in your code to cause the crash -- if you don't use the regex_compile function before using regex_find, regex_find calls regex_compile itself, performs the find, and then calls regex_free. So ANY call in ANY program to regex_find without regex_compile in your own code (or with it, but then you have to call regex_free yourself) will cause the crash. I should have mentioned I'm using all the latest versions of the interpreter & translator (unregistered) and am on a WinME system. I tried compiling with both Borland & lccWin, same result.