Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 00/11] Differentiate ^/$ from \` and \' in grep -z mode

[Jim Meyering]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> this series is a pretty heavy refactoring of how anchors work in dfa.c.
> The main objective is to implement ^, $, \` and \' correctly when grep
> -z is in use.  In particular, ^ and $ will match a newline character in
> the middle of a NULL-delimited sequence.  This is backwards-incompatible.
...
>   dfa: fix corner case with anchors
>   dfa: introduce contexts for the values in d->success
>   dfa: change newline/letter to a single context value
>   dfa: refactor common context computations
>   dfa: change meaning of a state context
>   dfa: remove useless check
>   dfa: make repetitive code *really* repetitive
>   dfa: remove redundant line constraints
>   dfa: rename "newline" to "buffer delimiter"
>   dfa: introduce bufdelim context
>   dfa: introduce BEGBUF/ENDBUF

Thanks for all that work.
Just a heads up that I probably won't be able to do much
more grep review work this week, due to other commitments:
a coreutils release is imminent and parted needs attention.