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Re: A patch for gnu-regex
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:29:45PM +0100, Guenther Grau wrote:
> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00562.html
> > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00566.html
> >
> > This patch is definitly much better than the original.
> >
> > Unfortunatly, I don't think that selecting a pre-installed regexp should
> > be the default. My rationale (As Mark? noted) is that ensuring that a
> > GDB release provides consistent behavour between systems (1) is more
> > important than having it select the latest/greatest random regexp.
>
> I support this (not that it matters :-). If H.J. Lu wants it on
> Linux, he can ./configure --with-libc-regex or --with-native-regex,
--with-libc-regex and --with-native-regex are misleading since
the regex in gdb coms from the Linux C library.
> but the default should be the regex within gdb.
Are you speaking as a Linux/Hurd user? As far as I know, my patch will
only affect Linux and Hurd? If you are a Linux/Hurd user, do you
have a "known to work" regex in your C library? If not, should you
be worried?
H.J.