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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Benchmarks Game - regex-redux - help needed
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:11:24 +0000
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> briot.emmanuel@gmail.com writes:
>
>> Once thing that made it difficult in the beginning was building and
>> packaging an extra external library, but I believe pcre is now a
>> mandatory dependency for gcc anyway, so it is already distributed...
>
> I've been building GCC 9, and the only trace of pcre on my system is in
> the macports installation directory (which I don't have on my default
> path).
>
> Looks like an easy-enough install, though -- pcre just built & passed
> checks (macOS 10.14.3, GCC 9.0.1)

... and the PCRE-basedversion crashes with a segv while calling
pcre_free() to deallocate something allocated by pcre.

The GNAT.Spitbol version[1] worked a treat.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/regexredux-gnat-5.html