Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > It's perfectly OK to provide a zero-width regex in general, e.g. try: > Or for a non-git tool: > ... The same story goes for "^" or even ".*", I suspect. > I think the real bug here is that we are pointing our regexec() at the > haystack of multiple lines as an optimization. > > Then in "determine extent of line matched" and "is it a funcname line" > assuming that a positive match must be non-zero-width. But that's just > because the optimization is leaky. Good thinking.
