Re: [Boost-users] Boost Regex Back Reference Issue

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Regex Back Reference Issue
From: Nick (nospam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-14 14:55:17

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 19:20 +0100, John Maddock via Boost-users wrote:

> Congratulations, you've just spotted a... ahem... 20 year old bug in the 
> documentation!

Should I do something explicit for it to get fixed (bug ticket, etc), or
has that already been set in motion from this e-mail?

> > 2.  The other issue is that when I try this example with the string
> > which is posted to not match, the Boost regex engine runs for a while
> > and ultimately crashes with a memory error.  (seems like it might be an
> > endless loop of some sort).  Is that a bug?
> 
> Works just fine for me here, if you have a complete self-contained test 
> case (code, plus compiler version, platform and boost version please) 
> I'll look into it.

If it's working for you I'll take a closer look and try to get a small
repro.  This is happening with GCC 4.9 on Linux (Ubuntu 14 & Gentoo)
with Boost 1.61.

Nick