Re: [pcre-dev] possible lookaround bug

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Author: Petr Pisar
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To: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] possible lookaround bug
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 02:05:53PM +0100, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> When I try this with PCRE 8.33 on Fedora 20, I get what appears to be an
> infinite loop:
>
> echo -n a | pcregrep -o '(?<=\Ka)'
>
> pcregrep prints 'a', one per line, until I kill it.
>

I ported fix for this bug into Fedora 20. Once pcre-8.33-9.fc20 package
becomes stable, you should receive it via standard Fedora update mechanism.

-- Petr