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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stack overflow in regexp matcher
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:24:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jed6cwkkmi.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv65iormu8.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (Stefan Monnier's message of "17 Oct 2003 09:55:19 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> Stefan> Supposedly the latest glibc regexp code uses an FSM,
> Stefan> and hopefully someone will hack on it at some point to
> Stefan> make it useable for Emacs.
>
>> Tom Lord's rx looks pretty nice, too, and it's assigned to the FSF
>> IIRC.  Not to mention coming with a fairly comprehensive test suite.
>
> AFAIK, that's the code used in glibc.

No, the regex matcher in glibc was written by Isamu Hasegawa
<isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-17 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-16 16:35 Stack overflow in regexp matcher Sam Steingold
2003-10-16 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-17  6:13   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-17 13:55     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-17 14:24       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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