From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging forked versions of regex.c
Date: 18 Mar 2002 22:27:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877koa9fam.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203180906.g2I96IC08506@wijiji.santafe.edu>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Various GNU programs such as Emacs and Glibc have separate forked
> versions of the file regex.c. It would be good to clean up this mess,
> to reunite the forked versions.
>
> Would someone like to work on this?
Unfortunately, this task is now harder because glibc has recently
adopted a new (completely rewritten) regex implementation, which is
presently unusable by emacs (re_search_2 is implemented by mallocing a
buffer to hold the two strings, copying them into it, and then
searching!!!). Also, Tom Lord has examined it, and he claims that it
has other serious problems that make it currently unsuitable for general
use [I haven't seen any response to this].
-Miles
--
Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen
_______________________________________________
Emacs-devel mailing list
Emacs-devel@gnu.org
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-18 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-18 9:06 Merging forked versions of regex.c Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 13:27 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-03-19 8:43 ` Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=877koa9fam.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp \
--to=miles@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).