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Re: regex.c simplification
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: regex.c simplification |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:53:58 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:35:34 -0700
> From: "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden>
>
> I was doing some work on regex.c just now, and I was frustrated that the
> code is unnecessarily complicated by the ifdefs necessary to support some
> theoretical non-Emacs use case. Is all of this complexity really
> necessary? Are we sure the !emacs case even compiles? Are there non-Emacs
> users of the Emacs regex code? Can we just fork the implementation? How
> about baking in switches like MATCH_MAY_ALLOCATE?
I think we still haven't abandoned the hope of updating to the latest
glibc/gnulib versions of regex.c, although I'm not sure how practical
these hopes are at this point.
Re: regex.c simplification, Noam Postavsky, 2018/06/16
Re: regex.c simplification, Perry E. Metzger, 2018/06/16