From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David O'Brien" To: DJ Delorie Cc: jjohnstn@redhat.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: libibery regex Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:35:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010710213513.A3359@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200107091924.PAA15845@greed.delorie.com> <3B4B2F4C.257185A8@cygnus.com> <200107101645.MAA08773@greed.delorie.com> <3B4B4E2F.3DEFD9E7@cygnus.com> <200107110022.UAA30714@greed.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00087.html On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:22:42PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > To all: If you want GNU regex (from glibc, and I will strive to keep > it in sync), just include "xregex.h" in your source and libiberty will > provide you with it. No need to do anything special, as xregex > #defines all the usual names (regcmp, etc) to "x" names (xregcmp, > etc). I don't quite understand the need of this. What is wrong with using native regex libs (if they exist). This makes it sound like this version would always be used -- adding to code bloat. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)