Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was
mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read
beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing
a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND
extension.
* js/regexec-buf:
regex: use regexec_buf()
regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string
regex: -G<pattern> feeds a non NUL-terminated string to regexec() and fails
# Define USE_NED_ALLOCATOR if you want to replace the platforms default
# memory allocators with the nedmalloc allocator written by Niall Douglas.
#
- # Define NO_REGEX if you have no or inferior regex support in your C library.
+# Define OVERRIDE_STRDUP to override the libc version of strdup(3).
+# This is necessary when using a custom allocator in order to avoid
+# crashes due to allocation and free working on different 'heaps'.
+# It's defined automatically if USE_NED_ALLOCATOR is set.
+#
+ # Define NO_REGEX if your C library lacks regex support with REG_STARTEND
+ # feature.
#
# Define HAVE_DEV_TTY if your system can open /dev/tty to interact with the
# user.