Re: pcre module help

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> [Moving to -workers]
> 
> > I would still think it should not crash because of a missing feature.
> > If you still would like a backtrace to find that problem, I will try
> > to get around to recompiling it with debugging turned on and generate
> > one for you.  Just let me know.
> 
> Yes, there could be something wrong with bin_notavail or cond_match.
> A backtrace could shed some light on this.

I'm kind of down on bin_notavail anyway.  It's pointless compiling the
module if it's not going to provide anything.  Failing to load it
with zmodload is a much more transparent way of finding that the
feature isn't available.  Otherwise, you're lulled into a false sense
of security about something which could fail to work in a lot of
different ways --- as in this case, we're not always concerned just
with builtins.  These multiple possible failure modes are asking for
trouble.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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