[PATCH] Kill regexp.h

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo kon@iki.fi
Mon Jul 13 05:30:00 GMT 2015


Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> writes:

> Moreover, the code in regexp.h that uses those macros has been buggy
> since its creation (in 1996) and no one has noticed, which indicates
> to me that there are no users.  (Specifically, RETURN() is used in a
> whole bunch of cases where it should have been ERROR().)

Also, it allocates new memory for the compiled regexp, instead of
using the memory that the caller provided for that purpose.
http://bugs.debian.org/517625



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