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Problem report
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Resolution: Fixed
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Trivial
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4.0.2, 4.2.0alpha1
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GNU/Linux
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Sprint 47, Dec 2018
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0.125
There are bugs in file m4/pcre.m4 when pcre_compile() is called.
The bugs slip through C compiler (gcc) as warnings
conftest.c: In function 'main': conftest.c:185:1: warning: old-style function definition [-Wold-style-definition] conftest.c:190:49: warning: passing argument 3 of 'pcre_compile' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types] pcre *regexp = pcre_compile("test", PCRE_UTF8, error, error_offset, 0); ^~~~~ In file included from conftest.c:182: /usr/include/pcre.h:540:21: note: expected 'const char **' but argument is of type 'const char *' PCRE_EXP_DECL pcre *pcre_compile(const char *, int, const char **, int *, ^~~~~~~~~~~~ conftest.c:190:56: warning: passing argument 4 of 'pcre_compile' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] pcre *regexp = pcre_compile("test", PCRE_UTF8, error, error_offset, 0); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from conftest.c:182: /usr/include/pcre.h:540:21: note: expected 'int *' but argument is of type 'int' PCRE_EXP_DECL pcre *pcre_compile(const char *, int, const char **, int *, ^~~~~~~~~~~~
but are stopped by C++ compiler (g++):
conftest.c: In function 'int main()': conftest.c:192:49: error: cannot convert 'const char*' to 'const char**' pcre *regexp = pcre_compile("test", PCRE_UTF8, error, error_offset, 0); ^~~~~ In file included from conftest.c:184: /usr/include/pcre.h:540:53: note: initializing argument 3 of 'pcre* pcre_compile(const char*, int, const char**, int*, const unsigned char*)' PCRE_EXP_DECL pcre *pcre_compile(const char *, int, const char **, int *, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
It can be fixed with patch
Index: m4/pcre.m4 =================================================================== --- m4/pcre.m4 (revision 87676) +++ m4/pcre.m4 (working copy) @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ [ const char* error = NULL; int error_offset = -1; - pcre *regexp = pcre_compile("test", PCRE_UTF8, error, error_offset, 0); + pcre *regexp = pcre_compile("test", PCRE_UTF8, &error, &error_offset, NULL); pcre_free(regexp); ], found_libpcre="yes")