Thanks for the report. Martin> There seems to be a case where stale values are returned Martin> by match-beginning, match-end and match-string. [...] Martin> I've verified this in XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6). Also in 21.4.9. Could someone check in 21.5? I don't have time to work on it further today, but the match functions expect the start position of the nth match to be < 0 if the pattern contains < n subexpressions. We don't seem to have any code to ensure that the start array is correctly initialized. Initialization could be done in search.c compile_pattern, but I don't know if this is the "right" place for it yet. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py

Martin> There seems to be a case where stale values are returned Martin> by match-beginning, match-end and match-string. [...] Martin> I've verified this in XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6). sjt> Also in 21.4.9. Could someone check in 21.5? sjt> Initialization could be done in search.c compile_pattern, but sjt> I don't know if this is the "right" place for it yet. It wasn't; XEmacs optimizes the regexp compilation away for trivial regexps and regexps found in a cache. This patch fixes the problem for me, and adds a case to the regression test suite. This patch is informational. It will be committed later as part of a larger revision of the syntax, search, and regexp modules. Index: src/ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.290.2.28.2.2 diff -u -U0 -r1.290.2.28.2.2 ChangeLog --- src/ChangeLog 30 Aug 2002 02:55:46 -0000 1.290.2.28.2.2 +++ src/ChangeLog 9 Sep 2002 11:10:17 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,11 ＠＠ +2002-09-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * search.c (clear_unused_search_regs): New static function. + (search_buffer): + (simple_search): + (boyer_moore): + Use it. Fixes "stale match data" bug reported by Martin Stjernholm. + Minor clarifications in comments. + + * regex.c (re_match_2_internal): Ensure no stale submatches. + Index: src/regex.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/regex.c,v retrieving revision 1.25.2.2 diff -u -r1.25.2.2 regex.c --- src/regex.c 17 May 2001 13:37:45 -0000 1.25.2.2 +++ src/regex.c 9 Sep 2002 10:58:21 -0000 ＠＠ -4716,16 +4716,24 ＠＠ = (regoff_t) POINTER_TO_OFFSET (regend[mcnt]); } } - - /* If the regs structure we return has more elements than - were in the pattern, set the extra elements to -1. If - we (re)allocated the registers, this is the case, - because we always allocate enough to have at least one - -1 at the end. */ - for (mcnt = num_regs; mcnt < regs->num_regs; mcnt++) - regs->start[mcnt] = regs->end[mcnt] = -1; } /* regs && !bufp->no_sub */ + /* If we have regs and the regs structure has more elements than + were in the pattern, set the extra elements to -1. If we + (re)allocated the registers, this is the case, because we + always allocate enough to have at least one -1 at the end. + + We do this even when no_sub is set because some applications + (XEmacs) reuse register structures which may contain stale + information, and permit attempts to access those registers. + + It would be possible to require the caller to do this, but we'd + have to change the API for this function to reflect that, and + audit all callers. */ + if (regs && regs->num_regs > 0) + for (mcnt = num_regs; mcnt < regs->num_regs; mcnt++) + regs->start[mcnt] = regs->end[mcnt] = -1; + DEBUG_PRINT4 ("%u failure points pushed, %u popped (%u remain).\n", nfailure_points_pushed, nfailure_points_popped, nfailure_points_pushed - nfailure_points_popped); Index: src/search.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/search.c,v retrieving revision 1.17.2.3 diff -u -r1.17.2.3 search.c --- src/search.c 20 Aug 2002 11:38:08 -0000 1.17.2.3 +++ src/search.c 9 Sep 2002 10:58:22 -0000 ＠＠ -108,6 +108,7 ＠＠ Lisp_Object Vskip_chars_range_table; static void set_search_regs (struct buffer *buf, Bufpos beg, Charcount len); +static void clear_unused_search_regs (struct re_registers *regp, int no_sub); /* #### according to comment in 21.5, unnecessary */ static void save_search_regs (void); static Bufpos simple_search (struct buffer *buf, Bufbyte *base_pat, ＠＠ -1173,10 +1174,11 ＠＠ if (len == 0) { set_search_regs (buf, bufpos, 0); + clear_unused_search_regs (&search_regs, 0); return bufpos; } - /* Searching 0 times means don't move. */ + /* Searching 0 times means noop---don't move, don't touch registers. */ if (n == 0) return bufpos; ＠＠ -1223,6 +1224,8 ＠＠ search_regs.start[i] += j; search_regs.end[i] += j; } + /* re_match (called from re_search et al) does this for us */ + /* clear_unused_search_regs (search_regs, bufp->no_sub); */ XSETBUFFER (last_thing_searched, buf); /* Set pos to the new position. */ pos = search_regs.start[0]; ＠＠ -1260,6 +1287,8 ＠＠ search_regs.start[i] += j; search_regs.end[i] += j; } + /* re_match (called from re_search et al) does this for us */ + /* clear_unused_search_regs (search_regs, bufp->no_sub); */ XSETBUFFER (last_thing_searched, buf); /* Set pos to the new position. */ pos = search_regs.end[0]; ＠＠ -1460,6 +1489,7 ＠＠ end = bytind_to_bufpos (buf, idx + buf_len); } set_search_regs (buf, beg, end - beg); + clear_unused_search_regs (&search_regs, 0); return retval; } ＠＠ -1821,6 +1851,7 ＠＠ Bufpos bufend = bytind_to_bufpos (buf, bytstart + len); set_search_regs (buf, bufstart, bufend - bufstart); + clear_unused_search_regs (&search_regs, 0); } if ((n -= direction) != 0) ＠＠ -1910,6 +1941,7 ＠＠ Bufpos bufend = bytind_to_bufpos (buf, bytstart + len); set_search_regs (buf, bufstart, bufend - bufstart); + clear_unused_search_regs (&search_regs, 0); } if ((n -= direction) != 0) ＠＠ -1929,8 +1961,8 ＠＠ return bytind_to_bufpos (buf, pos); } -/* Record beginning BEG and end BEG + LEN - for a match just found in the current buffer. */ +/* Record the whole-match data (beginning BEG and end BEG + LEN) and the + buffer for a match just found. */ static void set_search_regs (struct buffer *buf, Bufpos beg, Charcount len) ＠＠ -1948,6 +1980,24 ＠＠ search_regs.start[0] = beg; search_regs.end[0] = beg + len; XSETBUFFER (last_thing_searched, buf); +} + +/* Clear unused search registers so match data will be null. + REGP is a pointer to the register structure to clear, usually the global + search_regs. + NO_SUB is the number of subexpressions to allow for. (Does not count + the whole match, ie, for a string search NO_SUB == 0.) + It is an error if NO_SUB > REGP.num_regs - 1. */ + +static void +clear_unused_search_regs (struct re_registers *regp, int no_sub) +{ + /* This function has been Mule-ized. */ + int i; + + assert (no_sub >= 0 && no_sub < regp->num_regs); + for (i = no_sub + 1; i < regp->num_regs; i++) + regp->start[i] = regp->end[i] = -1; }  Index: tests/ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/tests/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.2.2.15 diff -u -r1.2.2.15 ChangeLog --- tests/ChangeLog 23 Aug 2002 16:44:41 -0000 1.2.2.15 +++ tests/ChangeLog 9 Sep 2002 10:58:22 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,8 ＠＠ +2002-09-09 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * automated/regexp-tests.el: Add test for stale subexpr match-data. + Thanks to Martin Stjernholm for the report. + + * automated/syntax-tests.el: Conditionalize syntax-table property + tests on feature. Enable feature if present. + Index: tests/automated/regexp-tests.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/tests/automated/regexp-tests.el,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 regexp-tests.el --- tests/automated/regexp-tests.el 12 Apr 2001 18:24:55 -0000 1.2 +++ tests/automated/regexp-tests.el 9 Sep 2002 10:58:22 -0000 ＠＠ -213,3 +213,18 ＠＠ (looking-at "Unmatchable text") (replace-match "") (Assert (looking-at "^buffer.$"))) + +;; Test that trivial regexps reset unused registers +;; Thanks to Martin Sternholm for the report. +;; xemacs-beta <5blm6h2ki5.fsf(a)lister.roxen.com&gt; +(with-temp-buffer + (insert "ab") + (goto-char (point-min)) + (re-search-forward "\\(a\\)") + ;; test the whole-match data, too -- one try scotched that, too! + (Assert (string= (match-string 0) "a")) + (Assert (string= (match-string 1) "a")) + (re-search-forward "b") + (Assert (string= (match-string 0) "b")) + (Assert (string= (match-string 1) nil))) + Index: tests/automated/syntax-tests.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/tests/automated/syntax-tests.el,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 syntax-tests.el --- tests/automated/syntax-tests.el 12 Apr 2001 18:24:55 -0000 1.2 +++ tests/automated/syntax-tests.el 9 Sep 2002 10:58:22 -0000 ＠＠ -107,16 +107,20 ＠＠ ;; <apply-pos> can be in the form (start . end), or can be a ;; character position. (defun test-syntax-table (string apply-pos apply-syntax stop) - (goto-char (point-max)) - (unless (consp apply-pos) - (setq apply-pos `(,apply-pos . ,(+ 1 apply-pos)))) - (let ((point (point))) - (insert string) - (put-text-property (+ point (car apply-pos)) (+ point (cdr apply-pos)) - 'syntax-table apply-syntax) - (goto-char point) - (forward-word 1) - (Assert (eq (point) (+ point stop))))) + ;; We don't necessarily have syntax-table properties ... + (when (fboundp 'lookup-syntax-properties) ; backwards compatible kludge + ;; ... and they may not be enabled by default if we do. + (setq lookup-syntax-properties t) + (goto-char (point-max)) + (unless (consp apply-pos) + (setq apply-pos `(,apply-pos . ,(+ 1 apply-pos)))) + (let ((point (point))) + (insert string) + (put-text-property (+ point (car apply-pos)) (+ point (cdr apply-pos)) + 'syntax-table apply-syntax) + (goto-char point) + (forward-word 1) + (Assert (eq (point) (+ point stop)))))) ;; test syntax-table extents (with-temp-buffer ＠＠ -126,6 +130,8 ＠＠ (test-syntax-table "W." 1 `(,(syntax-string-to-code "w")) 2)) ;; Test forward-comment at buffer boundaries +;; #### The second Assert fails (once interpreted, once compiled) on 21.4.9 +;; with sjt's version of Andy's syntax-text-property-killer patch. (with-temp-buffer (c-mode) (insert "// comment\n") -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py