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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] regex: improve comment
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 01:08:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211019080819.374098-1-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)

---
 lib/regexec.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/regexec.c b/lib/regexec.c
index a955aa218..106f9d7ff 100644
--- a/lib/regexec.c
+++ b/lib/regexec.c
@@ -758,8 +758,7 @@ re_search_internal (const regex_t *preg, const char *string, Idx length,
 
 		  offset = match_first - mctx.input.raw_mbs_idx;
 		}
-	      /* If MATCH_FIRST is out of the buffer, leave it as '\0'.
-		 Note that MATCH_FIRST must not be smaller than 0.  */
+	      /* If OFFSET is out of the buffer, leave CH as '\0'.  */
 	      ch = (mctx.input.valid_len <= offset
 		    ? 0 : re_string_byte_at (&mctx.input, offset));
 	      if (fastmap[ch])
-- 
2.32.0



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