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Re: [PATCH] Fix handling of collating symbols in regexps


> That depends on how you measure.   The code's basically
> ready for a merge; the only holdup is the painstaking process of
> generating individual patches for review.  This would take many hours
> of my time to do right, and there's always something that's more pressing,
> or more fun, or both.

Understood.

> By the way, by merging I mean "make the two source-code copies
> identical"; I don't mean "fix glibc regex so that it can handle strings
> longer than 2 GiB on 64-bit machines".  The latter will require more
> work, since it'll mean that a 64-bit glibc build needs to compile the
> regex code twice, once for the current (broken) ABI and once for the new
> (fixed) ABI.  It shouldn't be hard to arrange for that, for someone who
> knows how to fiddle with glibc ABI versions, but I'm afraid that I'm not
> that someone.

We can take care of that when the code itself is ready.  Is there a
bugzilla item filed for the 2G limit issue?  Can you show the header
diff that constitutes the change in the public ABI?


Thanks,
Roland


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