From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing ill-conditioned regular expressions. Proof of concept. Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:37:40 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54EBB9C4.1020505@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150223181205.GA2861@acm.fritz.box> <54EB85AC.1030800@cs.ucla.edu> <20150223202114.GB2861@acm.fritz.box> <54EBA757.5030901@cs.ucla.edu> <20150223224245.GC2861@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424734678 5390 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2015 23:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 00:37:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YQ2ZT-00081Z-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:37:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQ2ZS-0000Ze-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:37:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQ2ZP-0000YX-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQ2ZK-000715-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:41777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQ2ZK-00070q-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:37:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC0F39E8016; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:37:40 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PWUGUTVHHad5; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:37:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A91D639E8015; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:37:40 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20150223224245.GC2861@acm.fritz.box> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183435 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Why not call fix-re from within > re-search-forward/backward, looking-at, ... I was thinking of calling it from within regexp.c itself, so that the callers would not need to be changed; it's the same basic idea, just a bit easier on the maintainers.