Re: find (and friends) bug?

[Paul Eggert]

> From: address@hidden (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
> Date: 04 Mar 2002 08:54:44 -0800
> 
> I think someone didn't understand the point of re_search_2...

I think it more likely that someone understood the point fairly well
(as the glibc contributors are not complete idiots :-).  However, I
suspect that the glibc contributors didn't think that re_search_2 was
worth catering to efficiently in a general-purpose subroutine library.

Another possibility is that they didn't have time to implement it
efficently, but would welcome patches to improve performance.  Perhaps
Ulrich could clarify this issue.

Does any program use re_search_2 other than Emacs?  If not, then
perhaps it ought to be moved to Emacs anyway -- or at least moved out
of glibc.

I hope (probably vainly) that this point has already been discussed by
some glibc and Emacs implementers already.  There should be reasonable
technical coordination between the projects.