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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Then yes, you will need to somehow pass down the object from which the
> text comes.  It can be in some global variable, for instance, if
> changing the function's signature is undesirable.

I decided that a global variable would be a bad idea since it would
still effectively be part of the calling convention, and too easy for
callers to forget.  But just after finishing the patch I noticed this:

    /* In Emacs, this is the string or buffer in which we
       are matching.  It is used for looking up syntax properties.  */
    Lisp_Object re_match_object;

So now I'm thinking it might be better to reuse that variable instead.
Although it only seems to get to Qt, Qnil, and string objects; I'm not
sure what the meaning of Qt and Qnil are.