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

[Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>]

On 02/07/2013 02:42 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> How far are we from reharmonizing the regex code with gnulib?

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.

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.