Hi

please check if a ".*" in the fallback code (which triggers the
assertion) instead of the "" helps.

Richard

Am Mo, 2004-03-15 um 21.49 schrieb Thomas Schuerger:
> Hi,
> 
> the current CVS version of GtkG doesn't run on FreeBSD 4.9. It fails an assertion:
> 
> ** ERROR **: file fileinfo_gui.c: line 310 (fi_gui_set_filter_regex): assertion 
> failed: (!regcomp(&filter_re, "", REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB))
> 
> The reported regex error is: "empty (sub)expression"
> 
> Don't know what it's like on other OSs, but on FreeBSD, according to FreeBSD's
> regex manpage, an empty regex is invalid:
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
>      `|' cannot appear first or last in a (sub)expression or after another
>      `|', i.e. an operand of `|' cannot be an empty subexpression.  An empty
>      parenthesized subexpression, `()', is legal and matches an empty
>      (sub)string.  An empty string is not a legal RE.
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> This limitation isn't mentioned on the Linux regex manpage.
> 
> Perhaps a NULL regex in the function should be replaced by "()" instead of ""?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Thomas.
> 
> 
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