Re: bin/60552: /usr/bin/grep failure under AMD64

["Chavdar Ivanov via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/60552; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/60552: /usr/bin/grep failure under AMD64
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:37:35 +0100

 On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 at 14:25, RVP via gnats <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/60552; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: bin/60552: /usr/bin/grep failure under AMD64
 > Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 13:21:39 +0000 (UTC)
 >
 >  On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost via gnats wrote:
 >
 >  > '/usr/bin/grep -i' dumps core going through a file containing UTF16 characters, apparently when one has both -i and --color=auto specified.
 >  >
 >  > Observed on NetBSD-current from the end of June and on NetBSD-11 Release, only AMD64.
 >  >
 >  > The failure does not occur on NetBSD-current AARCH64.
 >  >
 >
 >  That's the clue:
 
 Correct, thanks. Tested.
 
 >
 >  ```
 >  diff -urN src/external/gpl2/grep.orig/dist/src/grep.c src/external/gpl2/grep/dist/src/grep.c
 >  --- src/external/gpl2/grep.orig/dist/src/grep.c        2022-09-09 22:14:29.000000000 +0000
 >  +++ src/external/gpl2/grep/dist/src/grep.c     2026-08-07 13:13:39.605001274 +0000
 >  @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@
 >           char *ilim = ibeg + (lim - beg);
 >           int i;
 >           for (i = 0; i < lim - beg; i++)
 >  -          ibeg[i] = tolower (beg[i]);
 >  +          ibeg[i] = tolower ((unsigned char)beg[i]);
 >           while ((match_offset = (*execute) (ibeg, ilim-ibeg, &match_size, 1))
 >                  != (size_t) -1)
 >             {
 >  ```
 >
 >  -RVP
 >
 
 
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