bug#24262: [PATCH 2/2] dfa: support not newline_anchor of regex

[arnold]

Norihiro Tanaka <address@hidden> wrote:

> The patch introduces not newline_anchor option of regex to dfa.  grep is
> always newline_anchor, so newer codes is not used.  I expect it is used
> by sed and gawk.
>
> However, the patch adds an argument to dfasyntax().   To synchronize
> between grep and dfa easily, I expect it is applied before dfa is moved
> to gnulib.

Can you update the comment to dfasyntax to explain the new fourth argument?

How would gawk call dfasyntax? It's not clear to me what you've just
done.

Thanks,

Arnold