[PATCH] Fix handling of collating symbols in regexps

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > 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

<http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5945>, I think (if not the 
same, it's at least a related issue).

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Joseph S. Myers
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