Re: [PATCH RESEND] gen-insn-attr-x86.awk: Fix regexp warnings

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:56:14PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:19 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 06:03:28PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > > This patch fixes the regexp warnings shown below:
> > > GEN      /home/sasha/torvalds/tools/objtool/arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
> > > awk: ../arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:260: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator
> > > awk: ../arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:350: (FILENAME=../arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt FNR=41) warning: regexp escape sequence `\&' is not a known regexp operator
> > >
> > > The ':' and '&' characters need not escaping when used in string constants
> > > as part of regular expressions.
> >
> > How do you trigger this?
> >
> > I don't see it in my builds so it looks like environment thing. What
> > flavor of awk is yours?
> >
> > Thx.
> >
> > --
> > Regards/Gruss,
> >     Boris.
> >
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> 
> gawk 5.0.1-1 on Arch Linux.

Ok, looks like they're enforcing it in v5 as v4 which I have doesn't
complain. Please add that fact to the commit message.

More review as a reply to your second patch.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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