Simson L. Garfinkel

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The main thing I've been trying to do is find an RE2 replacement that builds under MinGW, or even get RE2 to build under MinGW on docker.

That's a fascinating idea. Unfortunately, YARA's REs are based on PCRE, so it will still die if someone gives us a RE like `.*@company.com`. Would you like to add YARA...

It’s technically difficult to detect regular expressions that require an unlimited amount of time. Bulk_extractor feeds 16MB pages to the RE engine. If you want poor performance, you could feed...

> Would you be imagining a solution that makes use of both YARA and RE2 ? e.g. should YARA mimic the existing processes with rules built in or should the...

@joachimmetz — Here we now have a test that fails with your patch. Please take a look when you have a chance.

I think that @uckelman-sf wants to make sure we can do a full static build for DFIR applications?

In the bulk_extractor configure macros, I manually check for each flag. Are you suggesting that we set CFLAGS=-Werror and CPPFLAGS=-Werror in our GitHub CI scripts, rather than having it hardcoded...

> My recommendation is that we move to setting `-Werror` for CI builds after we've eliminated all the warnings which appear in CI builds. The uses of `-Werror` presently prevent...