Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] my-project-id

[Russell]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:51:32AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
...
> Please note that the parser for regexp sets has to be carefully
> designed.  For example, "/" terminates an archive regexp but not just
> any "/".
> 
> This is a _category_ regexp set:
> 
>       foo.*[/xyz]

Is this a category regexp set because it can match fooxABC which is a
category name?  It will obviously also match foo/ABC, but that should be
coded around so we never attempt to match the project name
"address@hidden/ABC--a--1" against it?  Is that right?


> but this is an _archive_plus_category_ regexp set:
>       foo.*/xyz

Yes.

> And, this is a _category_plus_branch_ regexp set:
>       foo--bar

Yes.

> but this is a _category_ regexp set:
>          foo[--b]ar

Yuk.  You're right, but yuk.

> and this:
> 
>       foo--*bar
> 
> is a _category_plus_branch_ regexp set whose branch regexp,
> 
>       *bar
> 
> is not Posixly correct.





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Russell Steicke

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