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Set by lizmat on 24 May 2021.
Geth MoarVM: ab5tract++ created pull request #1798:
Address bug in twoway_memmem_uint32 use of memcmp (Fixes R#5550)
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linkable6 R#5550 [open]: github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/5550 [Fixed in RakuAST] Simple literal-only regex fails
lizmat ab5tract++ 15:39
Geth MoarVM/main: 47f518af25 | ab5tract++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | src/platform/memmem32.c
(twoway_memmem_uint32) Fix memcmp call

This resolves Rakudo Issue #5550 (Simple literal-only regex fails).
Apparently the previous behavior was Good Enough for 6 years of regexing, but it contained a significant bug: `memcmp` was being given 32-bit byte strings but was instructed only to compare the ... (14 more lines)
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[Coke] ab5tract++ 22:01