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Re: Question about some fields in regex's re_pattern_buffer
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: Question about some fields in regex's re_pattern_buffer |
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Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:52:09 +0200 |
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 19:54, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> However, this does raise a more general point, namely the wisdom of
> spending effort maintaining the GNU API, rather than extending the
> POSIX API where it is deficient with respect to the GNU API. The cost
> of maintaining the GNU is relatively low, since so much of the code is
> shared with the POSIX, and it is pehaps easier to fix the GNU API than
> to extend the POSIX API (owing to the care needing to be taken in the
> latter case not to break conformance). Nonetheless, far more
> developers stand to benefit from, for example, adding backwards
> searching to the POSIX API, than from adding thread-safety to the GNU
> API.
>
> Thoughts?
Syntax options are anyway not going to be supported by the POSIX API,
so the thread-safety issue has to be addressed in the GNU API anyway.
Paolo
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