| Summary: | re_comp and re_exec man pages don't document _REGEX_RE_COMP | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | dwmalone |
| Component: | man-pages | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.60-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-28 20:20:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
This is a documentation bug. fixed in 1.60-1 |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 Description of problem: The re_comp and re_exec man pages suggest includeing <regex.h> for re_comp and re_exec, but they don't tell you that you need to define _REGEX_RE_COMP (or that these functions are probably deprecated). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.man re_exec 2.grep -5 re_exec /usr/include/regex.h Actual Results: 21:56:turing 11% gcc -W -Wall -c re_test.c re_test.c: In function `main': re_test.c:12: warning: implicit declaration of function `re_comp' re_test.c:12: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast re_test.c:16: warning: implicit declaration of function `re_exec' Expected Results: 21:57:turing 13% gcc -D_REGEX_RE_COMP -W -Wall -c re_test.c 21:57:turing 13% Additional info: Showed up while investigating http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76594