Re: regex.c simplification

[Brett Gilio]

Paul Eggert writes:

> On 07/21/2018 12:17 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> There's still the alternative which I asked about a couple of days
>>> ago: use the Gnulib regexp without the additional code pulled in by
>>> mbrtowc, I hope that's a viable option.
>>
>> Yes, I've built that and am testing it. I plan to report back soon. 
>
> I tested it a bit, simplified the regex code on the Emacs side, and sent a new
> set of patches here:
>
> https://bugs.gnu.org/32194#11
>
> This eliminates about 2500 lines of Emacs C source code, yeay! More 
> improvement
> could be done, but it is getting time to merge in what I've got.


Thank you for your work, Paul. It is nice to see the source code getting
a little bit lighter, rather than to the contrary.



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Brett M. Gilio
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