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On 22 Jan 2003, Martin M. Hunt wrote:

> What was wrong with having GDB on all platforms using the standard 
> libiberty regex?

Perhaps on some platforms, the system regex is better.

But whatever the reasons, having an option to use the system regex is a 
Good Thing, IMHO.  Maybe we just should not make this the default, or 
have specialized tests for certain versions of glibc.