From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:41:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
Message-ID: <20090616174159.GA18479@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <3ae83b000906161039s1cd540a9k3506a09a5e616c67@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:39:39AM -0700, John Bito wrote:

> I believe the issue is that Solaris implements 'extended' regular
> expressions only in regcomp/regexec.  The implementation of
> regcmp/regex seems to be from SysV and supports only 'basic' regular
> expressions.

The regexps in question end up being compiled by regcomp (see
xdiff-interface.c:xdiff_set_find_func), so I don't think that is the
issue.

-Peff