At 10:16 PM 5/12/2001 -0700, Philip Mak wrote:
>(Is this the right place to make bug reports? If not, where?)

This is the correct place.


>This bug seems to occur if I do:
>./swish-e -w "___" -f (any index file)

Thanks.  The search parser needs a rewrite.  This segfault is the result of
a hack to allow underscores in metanames when the underscore is not listed
in WordCharacters.  Here's a quick patch (sorry for the wrap).

Of if you can wait a day or so it should be easy to patch in CVS without
disabling the underscore-in-metaname hack as below.

Index: search.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/swishe/swish-e/src/search.c,v
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -r1.45 search.c
--- search.c    2001/05/07 12:37:02     1.45
+++ search.c    2001/05/13 14:05:16
@@ -2572,7 +2572,7 @@
         switch (c)
         {
         case '*':              /* Special case: WildCard */
-        case '_':              /* Special case: To allow '_' in metanames
- Quick FIX. Must be rewritten */
+ //       case '_':              /* Special case: To allow '_' in
metanames - Quick FIX. Must be rewritten */
             word[j++] = c;
             break;
         case '(':



Bill Moseley
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