xregcomp: don't consider every regex compilation failure an internal error.

This pushes the error handling up one step, but makes the function
more flexible. Running out of memory still triggers an internal error,
in the spirit of other xutils functions.

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/notmuch-restore.c b/notmuch-restore.c
index ff1ebab..13b4325 100644
--- a/notmuch-restore.c
+++ b/notmuch-restore.c
@@ -88,9 +88,10 @@ notmuch_restore_command (unused (void *ctx), int argc, char *argv[])
      * non-space characters for the message-id, then one or more
      * spaces, then a list of space-separated tags as a sequence of
      * characters within literal '(' and ')'. */
-    xregcomp (&regex,
-	      "^([^ ]+) \\(([^)]*)\\)$",
-	      REG_EXTENDED);
+    if ( xregcomp (&regex,
+		   "^([^ ]+) \\(([^)]*)\\)$",
+		   REG_EXTENDED) )
+	INTERNAL_ERROR("compile time constant regex failed.");
 
     while ((line_len = getline (&line, &line_size, input)) != -1) {
 	regmatch_t match[3];
diff --git a/util/xutil.c b/util/xutil.c
index 15ff765..ac496da 100644
--- a/util/xutil.c
+++ b/util/xutil.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ xstrndup (const char *s, size_t n)
     return ret;
 }
 
-void
+int
 xregcomp (regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags)
 {
     int rerr;
@@ -110,9 +110,12 @@ xregcomp (regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags)
 	char *error = xmalloc (error_size);
 
 	regerror (rerr, preg, error, error_size);
-	INTERNAL_ERROR ("compiling regex %s: %s\n",
+	fprintf (stderr, "compiling regex %s: %s\n",
 			regex, error);
+	free (error);
+	return 1;
     }
+    return 0;
 }
 
 int
diff --git a/util/xutil.h b/util/xutil.h
index fd77f73..9299256 100644
--- a/util/xutil.h
+++ b/util/xutil.h
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ xstrdup (const char *s);
 char *
 xstrndup (const char *s, size_t n);
 
-void
+/* Returns 0 for successful compilation, 1 otherwise */
+int
 xregcomp (regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags);
 
 int