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Re: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000305]: Allow RE handling to reject suspicio
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Glenn Fowler |
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Re: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000305]: Allow RE handling to reject suspicious uses |
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Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:00:43 -0400 |
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:55:25 -0600 Eric Blake wrote:
> > would this mean an implementation could add a new<regex.h> error code?
> It may indeed be worthwhile to reword the bug 305 proposal to allow an
> implementation to extend <regex.h> in that manner, although it is not
> strictly necessary (GNU grep's warning was implemented without the need
> of a new <regex.h> error code).
on this (at&t ast) side just about all things RE are handled by <regex.h>
mostly because we loathe diffs between RE based utilities
e.g., if ast grep hits an RE error then sed ed ... will too