A patch for gnu-regex

Guenther Grau Guenther.Grau@marconicomms.com
Thu Mar 9 09:01:00 GMT 2000


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,
but the default should be the regex within gdb.

  Guenther


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