character classes not supported in symbol patterns in version scripts

[Jan Beulich]

Because ldlex.l defines

V_IDENTIFIER [*?.$_a-zA-Z\[\]\-\!\^]([*?.$_a-zA-Z0-9\[\]\-\!\^]|::)*

character classes (e.g. [:alnum:]) cannot be specified (nor can
equivalence classes be, but I consider this a less valuable feature in
this context). I thus believe that above definition should be changed to
not treat :: specially, but rather include : as a normal non-initial
character:

V_IDENTIFIER [*?.$_a-zA-Z\[\]\-\!\^][*?.$_a-zA-Z0-9\[\]\-\!\^:])*

Thank you,

i.A. Jan Beulich
Software Engineer Senior
Novell Linux Platform Engineering

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