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From: | Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] regex: Pass the system regex if its only problem is 32-bit regoff_t |
Date: | Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:06:17 +0200 |
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On 09/09/2010 05:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Hmm - here's the current POSIX 2008 wording: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/regex.h.html#tag_13_38 The <regex.h> header shall define the regoff_t type as a signed integer type that can hold the largest value that can be stored in either a ptrdiff_t type or a ssize_t type.
I know, but we have to choose between this and removing support for a whole class of regex features.
I'm choosing the lesser evil. Paolo
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