From 751b6e646f341e1d201f1a98770470c23db9e6b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nhmall <nhmall@nethack.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:38:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "follow-up: use only the memory that's required"

This reverts commit 4a0654c70875964fbe769165e04aebe2713cbe34.
---
 sys/share/cppregex.cpp | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/share/cppregex.cpp b/sys/share/cppregex.cpp
index 9f95c6274..0e3a7de1a 100644
--- a/sys/share/cppregex.cpp
+++ b/sys/share/cppregex.cpp
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ extern "C" {
   #include <hack.h>
 
   extern const char regex_id[] = "cppregex";
-  static char *cppregex_static_buffer = (char *) 0;
+  static char cppregex_static_buffer[BUFSZ];
 
   struct nhregex {
     std::unique_ptr<std::regex> re;
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ extern "C" {
 
   const char *regex_error_desc(struct nhregex *re) {
       if (re->err) {
-          if (cppregex_static_buffer != 0)
-              free(cppregex_static_buffer);
-          cppregex_static_buffer = dupstr(re->err->what());
+          Snprintf(cppregex_static_buffer, sizeof cppregex_static_buffer,
+                   "%s", re->err->what());
           return cppregex_static_buffer;
       } else
           return nullptr;