From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex.c: emacs & glibc (and xemacs, and grep and ...)
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:13 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204061732.g36HWDF19551@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hemp51rw.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Sam Steingold on 05 Apr 2002 15:27:47 -0500)
> I wish I knew. The versions diverged due to inattention,
> and recently a completely new regex was put into Glibc.
> I am told it has major problems. Supposing they are fixed,
> you will probably want to use that one in CLISP.
Could you please elaborate?
What are the problems?
When they are expected to be fixed?
I have no such information, sorry.
Why do you recommend it for CLISP (instead of the Emacs's version)?
A full rewrite is probably cleaner.
I know nothing more about it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-06 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-04 18:55 regex.c: emacs & glibc (and xemacs, and grep and ...) Sam Steingold
2002-04-04 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-05 1:25 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-05 2:47 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-05 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-05 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-08 19:22 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-10 14:23 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 19:05 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 20:27 ` Sam Steingold
2002-04-06 17:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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