Another RFC: regex in libiberty

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Fri Jun 8 09:18:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

    >> The two contenders seem to be a modified GNU regex and the
    >> ever-popular Henry Spencer's regex.  Does anyone have any
    >> strong opinions for either of these, or against any regex in
    >> libiberty at all?

My opinion may or may not matter on this debate, but here it is.
Since libiberty for use in GNU software, we must use GNU regex.  If
GNU regex is slow, we should make it faster.

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