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[Quinn Dunkan <quinn@envy.ugcs.caltech.edu>]

A few anal questions:

Why does utflen() return an int instead of a long?

Should Brdline take a Rune as the delimiter?

isalpharune(2) claims that toupperrune and tolowerrune return ints, but they
return Runes.

9p(2) says that "the wstat function takes a fid and a new Dir structure for
it, as well as a bitmask specifying which fields to update".  The signature in
the struct Srv has no mention of a bitmask.  Is the documentation in error?



The following function, when called with 're = regcomp("(..):(..)")' and
's = "ab:34"' will print:

matching against 'ab:34'

However, when the first line after the '{' is changed from 'char *s, *src;' to
'char *s;', it will print:

matching against 'ab:34'
success

The match will succeed if 'char *s' is placed below 'Reprog *re', but it will fail
if placed below 'Resub matches[...]', or if it is at the top with 'Reprog *re' and
'Resub matches[...]' swapped.  It will always fail if another 'char *' (or plain
'char') is declared on the same line as it is (the name doesn't matter).
Another 'char *' being declared at the bottom makes the regexp succeed,
though.

// just a fragment
static int re_sub(lua_State *L)
{
	char *s, *src;
	Reprog *re;
	Resub matches[max_matches];

	if (lua_tag(L, 1) != re_tag)
		luaL_argerror(L, 1, "expected regexp object");
	re = (Reprog *) lua_touserdata(L, 1);
	s = luaL_check_string(L, 2);

	print("matching against '%s'\n", s);
	if (regexec(re, s, matches, max_matches) == 0) {
		lua_pushnil(L);
		return 1;
	}
	print("success\n");
	return 0;
}

I was under the impression that changing the order of one's variable
declarations should have no effect on the operation of the program.
I tried making a standalone function (called from C), but the problem went
away then.  Could it be a compiler bug?  It's hard to reduce since it's being
called from lua, but if it could be a real issue I'll try to track it down.