From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: regex.c: emacs & glibc (and xemacs, and grep and ...) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:13 -0700 (MST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204061732.g36HWDF19551@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200204051905.g35J5a618932@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018114401 13390 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 17:33:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tu41-0003Tr-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:33:21 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tuHa-0002yZ-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:47:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tu3p-00081R-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tu2w-0007gp-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g36HWDa11322; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:13 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g36HWDF19551; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:13 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: sds@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Sam Steingold on 05 Apr 2002 15:27:47 -0500) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2417 > 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.