string-match fencepost error?

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Thu Aug 02 2001 on PKRAUSE configured using `configure UNKNOWN' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: % xemacs -vanilla (setq tag-table-alist '(("c:\\src\\xemacs" . "c:\\src\\xemacs"))) ==> (("c:\\src\\xemacs" . "c:\\src\\xemacs")) M-. (find-tag) Error: Invalid syntax designator The error is signalled by this block of code in regexp.c. case 's': laststart = buf_end; PATFETCH (c); /* XEmacs addition */ if (c >= 0x80 || syntax_spec_code[c] == 0377) FREE_STACK_RETURN (REG_ESYNTAX); /* <-- signal */ BUF_PUSH_2 (syntaxspec, syntax_spec_code[c]); break; c is 114 and syntax_spec_code[c] is 255 Recent keystrokes: Sh-insert ) ) C-j M-x s e t SPC v a SPC RET d e b u g SPC o n SPC e SPC RET t RET M-. C-x h M-w misc-u ser Recent messages (most recent first): Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading emacsbug...done Loading emacsbug... Entering debugger... Loading debug...done Loading debug... Loading etags...done Loading etags... Signaling: (invalid-regexp "Invalid syntax designator") string-match("c:\\src\\xemacs" "c:/src/xemacs/*scratch*") buffer-tag-table-list() buffer-tag-table-symbol-list() find-tag-tag("Find tag: ") byte-code("..." [current-prefix-arg (nil nil) find-tag-tag "Find tag: " nil] 2) call-interactively(find-tag) C stacktrace: regex_compile(unsigned char * 0x01e927c8, int 13, unsigned int 262656, re_pattern_buffer * 0x0125ef60) line 2990 re_compile_pattern(char * 0x01e927c8, int 13, re_pattern_buffer * 0x0125ef60) line 6257 + 24 bytes compile_pattern_1(regexp_cache * 0x0125ef58, long 29269572, long 31305728, re_registers * 0x0125ea50, int 0, _error_behavior_struct_ {...}) line 158 + 44 bytes compile_pattern(long 29269572, re_registers * 0x0125ea50, long 31305728, int 0, _error_behavior_struct_ {...}) line 200 + 29 bytes string_match_1(long 29269572, long 34975348, long 28332036, buffer * 0x01b41800, int 0) line 404 + 78 bytes Fstring_match(long 29269572, long 34975348, long 28332036, long 28332036) line 436 + 34 bytes Ffuncall(int 3, long * 0x0082ee0c) line 3477 + 168 bytes execute_optimized_program(unsigned char * 0x01e97410, int 5, long * 0x01f84110) line 744 + 16 bytes funcall_compiled_function(long 32839036, int 0, long * 0x0082f0f4) line 516 + 53 bytes Ffuncall(int 1, long * 0x0082f0f0) line 3512 + 17 bytes execute_optimized_program(unsigned char * 0x0214ea30, int 3, long * 0x01f66230) line 744 + 16 bytes funcall_compiled_function(long 32839400, int 0, long * 0x0082f3c0) line 516 + 53 bytes Ffuncall(int 1, long * 0x0082f3bc) line 3512 + 17 bytes execute_optimized_program(unsigned char * 0x01d58a50, int 9, long * 0x01f90890) line 744 + 16 bytes funcall_compiled_function(long 32839428, int 1, long * 0x0082f6ac) line 516 + 53 bytes Ffuncall(int 2, long * 0x0082f6a8) line 3512 + 17 bytes execute_optimized_program(unsigned char * 0x0082f884, int 2, long * 0x01c283d0) line 744 + 16 bytes Fbyte_code(long 28741236, long 29524928, long 5) line 2392 + 38 bytes Feval(long 32608764) line 3279 + 187 bytes Fcall_interactively(long 30294716, long 28332036, long 28332036) line 407 + 9 bytes Fcommand_execute(long 30294716, long 28332036, long 28332036) line 2918 + 17 bytes execute_command_event(command_builder * 0x01ccf200, long 30765676) line 3902 + 25 bytes Fdispatch_event(long 30765676) line 4194 + 70 bytes Fcommand_loop_1() line 583 + 9 bytes command_loop_1(long 28332036) line 495 condition_case_1(long 28332132, long (long)* 0x01050f7e command_loop_1(long), long 28332036, long (long, long)* 0x01050990 cmd_error(long, long), long 28332036) line 1692 + 7 bytes command_loop_3() line 256 + 35 bytes command_loop_2(long 28332036) line 268 internal_catch(long 28453276, long (long)* 0x01050ae0 command_loop_2(long), long 28332036, int * 0x00000000) line 1317 + 7 bytes initial_command_loop(long 28332036) line 305 + 25 bytes STACK_TRACE_EYE_CATCHER(int 1, char * * 0x01b49fe8, char * * 0x01e3ce00, int 0) line 2352 + 9 bytes main(int 1, char * * 0x01b49fe8, char * * 0x01e3ce00) line 2781 + 21 bytes mainCRTStartup + 211 bytes _start() line 170 KERNEL32! 77e97d08() Warning: No download sites specified. 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Useful keys: `return' to select/unselect the current package for installation. `d' to select/unselect the current package for removal. `r' to add any packages required by those selected. `x' to install/delete selected packages. `i' to display additional information about the package in the modeline. `g' to refresh the package list. `v' to toggle between a verbose and non-verbose display. `q' to kill this buffer. Paul Krause SoundBite Communications Corp 21 B-Street, Burlington, MA 01803 781 273-3360 x130 To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: string-match fencepost error? --text follows this line-- This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Thu Aug 02 2001 on PKRAUSE configured using `configure UNKNOWN' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Recent keystrokes: misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading emacsbug...done Fontifying *scratch*... done. Loading emacsbug... Paren mode is paren Loading paren...done Loading paren... P4PORT changed to perforce:1666 Fontifying *scratch*... (syntactically). Fontifying *scratch*...