bug#23358: merging byte to wide char caches in gawk

[arnold]

The silence in response to this has been thundering. :-(

Ignoring the gawk bits, is the grep team willing to incorporate the
dfa.[ch] changes?

Should this wait until after other pending changes to dfa are applied?

Thanks,

Arnold

Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Here is my proposed patch for merging the byte to w.c. caches in gawk
> by using the one in dfa.
>
> I renamed the one in dfa to 'btowc_cache' since it caches bytes,
> not multibyte characters.   This compiles and gets through the test
> suite.
>
> I also changed the check for the return of mbrtowc since it returns
> unsigned.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold